Hi, I am Jianguo Wang, an assistant professor at Renmin University of China. 

I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from National University of Singapore. 

My research interests are international trade, public economics, and digital economy. I use big data and econometrics/ML methods to explore topics linked to firms and consumers, regarding ownership, profit shifting, innovation, pricing, and recommendation algorithms. 

Publications: 

​1. Productivity gains from trade: Bunching estimates from trading rights in China (with Yunong Li, Yi Lu), the Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025. 

​2. Spatial spillover effects in determining China's regional CO2 emissions growth: 2007–2010 (with Bo Meng, etc.), Energy Economics, 2017. (pre-PhD)   

Working Papers:

1. Causal inference under kink bunching (with Huihua Xie, Yi Lu), NASM, AEA.

2. When Tax Incentives Regress: Non-refundable R&D Credits and the Innovation Divide (with Han Fang), R&R at Journal of Corporate Finance.

3. Involution and Collusion in Rank-based Incentive Systems (with Soumen Banerjee and Fan Hu).

4. Trade Credit Regulation and Buyer-Supplier Adjustment: Evidence from China's SME Payment Protection Reforms (with Boyu Wang). 2026 CES China Meeting

5. When the Nearest Driver Loses: Order Allocation as Incentive Design in Ride-hailing (with Aiyang Gao)

6. Anti-Avoidance Rules and Profit Shifting (with Yanxi Wu), NASM.

Emails:  wangjianguo@rmbs.ruc.edu.cn; wangjianguo@u.nus.edu