Research
Research
Area: Applied Microeconomics; Public Policy
Topics: Resource Allocation; Economic Development; Environmental Regulation; International Trade
Publications/Accepted Papers
Economics:
Legal Information Transparency and Capital Misallocation: Evidence from China. 2024, with Yang Jiao (SMU) and Xiao Tang (Tsinghua). Available at SSRN 4988901 conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
From Public Aid to Social Support: Well-being Dynamics After Exiting National Anti-Poverty Campaign. 2025, with Castiel Chen Zhuang (PKU), Ye Yuan (PKU), and Yibo Wu (ZhejiangU). Available at SSRN 5796222 conditionally accepted, Journal of Health Economics.
Window-Dressing in Environmental Regulation: Short-Term Incentives and Temporary Abatement. with Hong Ma and Fangrui Zhang (Tsinghua). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2026.
Commodity Supply Disruptions under Geopolitical Risk: A General Equilibrium Assessment. with Hong Ma (Tsinghua), Zi Wang (Baptist), and Chang Xie (Tsinghua). Review of International Economics. 2026.
Endowment, Technology Choices, and Structural Change. with Justin Yifu Lin and Bo Zhang (PKU). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 65 (2023): 364-381.
Input Trade Liberalization and Markup Distribution: Evidence from China. with Hong Ma (Tsinghua). Economic Inquiry. 59.1 (2021): 344-360.
Public Administration:
Who is Ready for AI? The Employer–Employee Belief Divide and Its Institutional and Macroeconomic Roots. 2025, with Caini Teng (Tsinghua), Xiao Tang (Tsinghua), and Zhe Deng (BJAST). accepted, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Performance Ranking, Policy Feedback, and Environmental Policy Implementation: An Empirical Study of the Mandatory Target System. with Xiao Tang (Tsinghua) and Hongtao Yi (Ohio State). Review of Policy Research. 35.5 (2018): 750-772.
Manuscripts under Review
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). Revision requested.
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