Tournament-Style Political Competition and Local Protectionism: Theory and Evidence from China (with Hanming Fang, and Zenan Wu), Journal of Public Economics, 2025
- Links to: NBER Working Paper, VoxChina
- Presented at 2021 NBER Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting, UPenn, Peking U, SJTU, SZU
Decoding China's Industrial Policies (with Hanming Fang, and Guangli Lu)
- Links to: NBER Working Paper, Vox China, Vox Dev, SCCEI
- Presented at UChicago, CUHK Shenzhen, Lingnan, Macau, PKU HSBC, PKU GSM, PKU SoE, ASSA (2025), NBER SI, SITE, CEPR, World Bank
High-Speed Rail and China’s Electric Vehicle Adoption Miracle (with Hanming Fang, Long Wang, and Yang Yang), under review
- Links to: NBER Working Paper, Vox Dev, Vox China
Information and Corruption: Evidence from China’s Land Auctions, Revise & Resubmit at Rand Journal of Economics
- Presented at 2019 BCCDS, 2020 NBER Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting, UPenn, Cornell, NUS, Shanghai Tech., Peking U, Tsinghua U and SJTU, ZJU
Who Bear the Cost: Financial Friction and Labor Markdown (with Yao Amber Li and Zehao Li), Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics
- Presented at CUHK, PKU Guanghua, Fudan, JNU, Economic Fluctuation and Growth (EFG) Forum 2023, AMES 2023
Reluctant Entrepreneurs: Evidence from China's SOE Reform (with Hanming Fang, Zenan Wu, and Yapei Zhang), Revise & Resubmit at Management Science
- Links to: NBER Working Paper, VoxChina, VoxEU, CATO
Red Scare? Testing for Ethnic Prejudice in the Prosecutions under the Economic Espionage Act (with Hanming Fang), under review
- Links to: NBER Working Paper, SSCEI, CATO
Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship (with Hanming Fang, and Wei Lin)
- Links to: World Bank
- Presented at 2024 ABFER, 2023 NBER Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting, CESI 2023, and CCERSI 2023, World Bank, Fudan, CKGSB, PKU
Rural-Urban Migration and Market Integration, (with Dennis Egger, Ben Faber, and Wei Lin), under review
- Research Question: Does rural-urban migration cause flows of trade and investment, and why?
- Presented at Oxford, LSE, NBER SI, UChicago
Haze and Crime: Evidence from Court Judgments in China (with Yajie Han and Yu Qin), under review
- Presented at Tsinghua, CCERSI 2023
Fear and Risk Perception: Understanding Physicians’ Dynamic Responses to Malpractice Lawsuits (with Hanming Fang and Jia Xiang)
- Presented at Indiana U, IIOC, PSU, HIT
Industrial Policy and Serial Entrepreneur (with Hanming Fang and Zenan Wu)
- Research Question: How does industrial policy shape entrepreneurial dynamics in China
- Presented at NBER China, Annual Conference on China and the Global Economy
The Gains from Online Integration: Theory and Evidence from China (with Ben Faber, Victor Couture, Cecile Gaubert, Yizhen Gu, and Wei Lin)
- Research Question: What are the local and aggregate effects of the spread of broadband and mobile internet in China over the past decades?
What kind of information can boost climate change adaptation? Evidence from a field experiment of cocoa farmers in Ghana (with Jia Xiang, Yunyu Shu, and Jiayue Zhang)
- Research Question: Does information about public benefit and private benefit change farmers' behavior differently?
"Transfer-based Decentralization, Economic Growth and Spatial Inequality: Evidence from China’s 2002–2003 Tax Sharing Reform." Urban Studies (2020): 0042098019856780. (with Fan Fan, Ran Tao, and Dali Yang)
“Bringing Politics Back in Charitable Giving: Evidence from Donations after China’ Sichuan Earthquake”, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2020): 0899764019868848 (with Fubing Su and Ran Tao)
“Transfer-Based Decentralization and Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in China”, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 49, no.4 (2019): 694–718. (with Ran Tao and Fubing Su)
"Self-employment and intention of permanent urban settlement: Evidence from a survey of migrants in China’s four major urbanizing areas", Urban Studies 52, no. 4 (2015): 639-664. (with Guangzhong Cao, Yan Ma, and Ran Tao)
"How does political trust affect social trust? An analysis of survey data from rural China using an instrumental variables approach", International Political Science Review 35, no. 2 (2014): 237-253. (with Ran Tao, Xi Lu, and Dali Yang)
"Local officials' incentives and China's economic growth: tournament thesis reexamined and alternative explanatory framework", China & World Economy 20, no. 4 (2012): 1-18. (with Fubing Su, Ran Tao and Xi Lu)
2025 (including scheduled)
AEA, NBER China, NBER SI, CityU, ABFER, RUC, World Bank, PKU NSD, Jinan U, SJTU, Kiel-G¨ottingen-CEPR Conference, DICE Competition Policy Conference, HKU FID Workshop, CUFE, Stanford
2024
SMU, NTU, ABFER, NBER China, NBER SI, HKU ICE, U of Macau, SUFE, CUFE, PKU PHBS, PKU GSM, PKU SoE, CICM
2023
CESI, CICM, CICF, CCER SI, CES, AMES, Peking University, Fudan, World Bank, Jinan University, HKU, CUHK, NBER China, Jinan-SMU Urban Workshop
2022
Early-stage workshop on Chinese Economy, NBER China work group meeting*, Jinan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, NSE Peking University*, Wharton UPenn*, Shenzhen University*, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society, CUHKSZ Research Conference
2021
China Meeting of Econometric Society, Early-stage workshop on Chinese Economy, CUHKSZ Research Conference, UPenn Chinese Economy Reading Group
2020
Cornell, National University of Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, ShanghaiTech, University of Melbourne (scheduled), HKUST (schedule), NBER China Meeting, Early-stage workshop on Chinese Economy,
2019
Biennial Conference of China Development Studies, International Conference on China Urban Development, China Meeting of the Econometric Society, , Penn Economics
2018
American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting
2013
Workshop on The Institutional Foundations of Chinese Development and Implications for Further Reform Conference on the Study of Inequality in China