Research
WORKING PAPERS
“Cities and the Sea Level” with Thomas McDermott and Guy Michaels, 2023. (R&R, Journal of Urban Economics)
“Subsidizing High-Rises for Growth or Vanity? An Empirical Assessment of Chinese Skyscrapers” with Ting Chen, Ziyang Chen and Jin Wang, 2023. (R&R, Journal of Urban Economics)
“The Long Shadow of Industrial Pollution: Environmental Amenities and the Location of Service Jobs”, 2023 (Under Review)
“Political Connections and Fiscal Transfers in the Regional Economy: Evidence from China” with Chongen Bai, Yuwan Duan and Yi Lu, 2023 (under review)
"Do Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Environmental Extremes?" with Panle Jia Barwick, Dave Donaldson, Shanjun Li, and Deyu Rao, 2023
PUBLICATION
“Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology-aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts” with Fangyuan Peng, Jin Wang and Lin Yang, Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023
“On Causality and Plausibility of Treatment Effects in Operations Management Research.” (with Sunil Mathias, Yanzhen Chen and Alysson De Oliveira Silveira), Production and Operations Management, 31(12), 4558-4571.
"Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations" (with Yu Qin, Johan Sulaeman, Jubo Yan, Jialiang Zhang), Review of Finance, 27.3 (2023): 1119-1154.
"Impact of High-speed Rail on Road Traffic and Greenhouse Gas Emissions." (With Yu Qin, Jing Wu and Mandi Xu) Nature Climate Change 11.11 (2021): 952-957 (Media coverage: The State Council of The People's Republic of China | People's Daily | China Daily| Carbon Brief | SCMP | SINA | China News | Science and Technology Daily | China Railway | The Paper) (Nature Climate Change’s News & Views on this paper)
“Does foreign technology transfer spur domestic innovation? Evidence from the high-speed rail sector in China” with Yu Qin and Zhuan Xie, Journal of Comparative Economics (2021), Volume 49, Issue 1
“Can Price Regulation Improve Land Use Efficiency? Evidence from Industrial Land Market in China” (with Yu Qin, Yang Yang and Hongjia Zhu), Regional Science and Urban Economics 81 (2020): 103501
"Travel Costs and Urban Specialization Patterns: Evidence from China’s High-speed Railway System." Journal of Urban Economics 98 (2017): 98-123.