Research
Research
Fields of Interest
Development Economics; International Trade; Environmental Economics.
Submitted Working Papers
Welfare after the End of Welfare Program. 2025, with Castiel Chen Zhuang, Ye Yuan, and Yibo Wu (PKU). Available at SSRN 5796222
Crops, Insects, and Diseases: Unintended Consequences of Environmental Policies on Ecosystem and Human Health 2025, with Congyuan Cui (PKU), Gordon Liu (PKU), Yun Qiu (Jinan), and Wen Wang (HKUST). Available at SSRN 5681125
Legal Information Transparency and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from China. 2024, with Yang Jiao (SMU) and Xiao Tang (Tsinghua). Available at SSRN 4988901 Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
A Race Against Time: How Firms Adapt to Short-Term Political Pressures in Emission Reduction. 2024, with Hong Ma and Fangrui Zhang (Tsinghua). Available at SSRN 5116285
From War to Markets: Supply Chain Uncertainty and the Cross-Border Impact of Geopolitical Risk . 2024, with Lei Li (Göttingen), Libo Yin (CUFE), and Zhenliang Zhao (PKU). link
The State Origin of Obedience. 2024, with Qing Liu (Duke) and Jinfeng Luo (Lingnan). link
Commodity Supply Disruptions in the Global Economy: A Quantitative Assessment. 2025, with Hong Ma (Tsinghua), Zi Wang (Baptist), and Fangrui Zhang (Tsinghua).
Working Papers
Polarized public responses to a pandemic: Theory and evidence. 2022, with Audrey Hu and Xu Han (CityUHK) link online appendix
Barriers to Exit and Allocation Efficiency. 2018. link
Publications
Endowment, Technology Choices, and Structural Change. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 65 (2023): 364-381. with Justin Yifu Lin and Bo Zhang (PKU).
Input trade liberalization and markup distribution: Evidence from China. Economic Inquiry. 59.1 (2021): 344-360. with Hong Ma (Tsinghua).
Performance Ranking, Policy Feedback, and Environmental Policy Implementation: An Empirical Study of the Mandatory Target System.” Review of Policy Research. 35.5 (2018): 750-772. with Xiao Tang (Tsinghua) and Hongtao Yi (Ohio State).
Fundings
Exit Cost, Trade Liberalization, and Allocation Efficiency, National Science Foundation of China, No. 72403011. 2025-2027. (PI)
Path-dependent Preferences and Polarized Public Response to Pandemic, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, No. 11503322 . 2023-2024. (co-I, with Xu Han, Audrey Hu)
High-Risk Mechanism Design, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, No. 9042842 . 2019-2022. (co-I, with Audrey Hu, Jiandong Ju)