Publication
2026, “Tax Cuts and Compliance Shifting Across Taxes“, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 245, 107527. (Joint with Yongzheng Liu, Jie Mao, and Chen-Yu Pan)
2024, “The Effect of Financial Knowledge on Asset Allocation for Chinese Households“, Pacific Economic Review 29(4): 442-468. (Joint with Tsung-Yu Yang and Tsun-Feng Chiang)
2022, “The Discontinuous Effect of Economic Performance on Political Turnover“, Applied Economics Letter 29(17): 1564-1570 (Joint with Chen-Yu Pan)
2022, “Fiscal Incentives and Land Finance Cycles of Prefectures in China”, World Economy 45(4): 1262-1293 (Joint with Tsun-Feng Chiang and Jack Hou)
2021, “Collusion, Political Connection, and Tax Evasion”, Kyklos 74(3): 417-441 (Joint with Yongzheng Liu and Xin Liu)
2021, “Credit and Fiscal Multipliers in China: Evidence from a Political Economy Based Estimation”, Journal of International Money and Finance 119, 102481. (Joint with Sophia Chen and Lev Ratnovski)
2020, “Industrial Land Prices and Fiscal Expenditure in China: Theory and Evidence”, Contemporary Economic Policy 38(4): 593-606. (Joint with Tsun-Feng Chiang and Chien-Yu Huang) first author
2018, “Why Go to Court? Bargaining Failure under the Shadow of Trial with Complete Information”, European Journal of Political Economy 55: 151-168. (with Michael McBride and Stergios Skaperdas) corresponding author
2018, “The Lame-Duck Effect and Fiscal Policy in China”, Developing Economies 56(3): 197-220. (with Jianliang Ye) first author
2018, “The Needham Puzzle-An Institutional Analysis Perspective”, Journal of Zhejiang University 48(1): 173-182 (in Chinese). (with Bingyuan Hsiung and Bing Ye)
2017. “Signal and Political Accountability: Environmental Petitions in China”, Economics of Governance 18(4): 391-418. (with Jiankun Lu) corresponding author
2016. "Fiscal Incentives and Political Budget Cycles in China", International Tax and Public Finance 23: 1030-1073.
2014. "State Fiscal Rules and Composition Changes in Public Spending before the Election." Public Finance Review 42(1) : 58-91.
Working Papers
“Political Incentives and Innovation: CEO Tenure, Party Roles, and Firm Strategy in China” (Joint with Yi-Fan Lung)
“Institutional Information Loss and Compliance Spillovers: Evidence from China’s VAT Reform” (Joint with Zhifan Huang)
“Financial Confidence and Prudent Consumer Behavior: Evidence from China Household Survey Data” (Joint with Tsun-Feng Chiang)
Chapters in Books
“Budget Cycles”, in Steven Rosefielde, Masaaki Kuboniwa, Satoshi Mizobata, and Kumiko Haba, ed., The Unwinding of the Globalist Dream, World Scientific, pp. 327-348 (2018).
“Fiscal Incentives and Land Finance”, in Pi-Han Tsai, XiaFei Zhou, Xiujun Zhu, and Baiming Zhu, ed., Four Essays on Land Finance, Zhejiang University Press, pp. 1-71 (2018). (in Chinese)