Research
Research
Area: Applied Microeconomics; Public Policy
Topics: Resource Allocation; Economic Development; Environmental Regulation; International Trade
Manuscripts under Review
From Public Aid to Social Support: Well-being Dynamics After Exiting National Anti-Poverty Campaign. 2025, with Castiel Chen Zhuang, Ye Yuan, and Yibo Wu (PKU). Available at SSRN 5796222 Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Health Economics.
Legal Information Transparency and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from China. 2024, with Yang Jiao (SMU) and Xiao Tang (Tsinghua). Available at SSRN 4988901 Revised and Resubmitted, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
Crops, Insects, and Diseases: Ecological Consequences of Straw-Burning Ban. 2025, with Congyuan Cui (PKU), Gordon Liu (PKU), Yun Qiu (Jinan), and Wen Wang (HKUST). Available at SSRN 5681125
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). Available at SSRN 6171666 Revision requested.
Who is Ready for AI? The Employer–Employee Belief Divide and Its Institutional and Macroeconomic Roots. 2025. Revised and Resubmitted.
Publications
Window-Dressing in Environmental Regulation: Short-Term Incentives and Temporary Abatement. 2024, with Hong Ma and Fangrui Zhang (Tsinghua). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. forthcoming
Commodity Supply Disruptions under Geopolitical Risk: A General Equilibrium Assessment. 2025, with Hong Ma (Tsinghua), Zi Wang (Baptist), and Chang Xie (Tsinghua). 2026. Review of International Economics.
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)
Peking University Digital and Intelligent Teaching Reform Project, 2025 (completed). PI.
Peking University Textbook Project, Dynamic Structural Estimation, 2023. 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)
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