Research

Research Interests

• International Trade and Economics, Spatial/Urban Economics, Chinese Economy.

Publications

• "The Impact of Road Infrastructure on Economic Circulation: Market Expansion and Input Cost Saving"

Economic Modelling, accepted for publication

with Guanghua Wan, Xu Wang and Xun Zhang

• "Judicial Quality, Input Customization, and Trade Margins: The Role of Product Quality"

The Economic Journal, 132(643), 2022, 926-952

with Xiaomin Cui and Miaojie Yu

• "Understanding the Recent Sino-US Trade Conflict" 

China Economic Journal, 12(2), 2019, 160-174

with Miaojie Yu

• "International Trade and Firm Innovation: Patterns and Evidence from the Chinese Employer-Employee Survey Data"

China Economic Journal, 10(1), 2017, 4-17 

with Wei Tian and Miaojie Yu

• "Capital Structure Premium in Multinational SOEs: Evidence from China"

Review of Development Economics, 20(1), 2016, 283-293

with Xun Zhang

Working Papers

• "Multi-product Firms and Competition: Fight or Flight?" with Luca Macedoni and Frederic Warzynski, (September 2023).

FREIT Working Paper No.1802

Papers under Revisions

• "Trade Costs beyond Iceberg and Quality Choices: Evidence and Implications", (November 2018).

Top PhD Submission Award, 2018 FREIT Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference

• "Market Interdependence through Shared Suppliers: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Textile and Clothing Exporters" with Daisy Chen Sun, under revision.

Best Graduate Student Paper, 2018 FREIT Empirical Investigation in International Trade Conference

• "China Quality Shock: Indonesian Firm Productivity under Global Quality Competition from China" with Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu, under revision.

• "Road Infrastructure, Market Integration, and Productivity: Evidence from China's Manufacturing Sector" with Ruochen Dai and Xun Zhang, new draft coming soon.

Book Chapters

• Ing, L. Y., Yu, M., & Zhang, R. (2018). The Evolution of Export Quality: China and Indonesia. In World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity, and Employment (pp. 261-302). Routledge.