WORKING PAPERS
"Political Connections and Fiscal Transfers in the Regional Economy: Evidence from China" with Yuwan Duan and Yi Lu, 2024. (Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics)
"Transportation Networks, Short-term Mobility, and Pollution Exposure: Evidence from High-Speed Rail in China" (with Panle Jia Barwick, Dave Donaldson, Shanjun Li and Deyu Rao), 2024 (Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review: Insights)
“The Long Shadow of Industrial Pollution: Environmental Amenities and the Location of Service Jobs”, 2023
PUBLICATION
“Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization”(with Pak Hung Lam, Fangyuan Peng and Jin Wang), Journal of International Economics, 104329, 2026.
“Building High, Falling Short: An Empirical Assessment of Chinese Skyscrapers” (with Ziyang Chen, Ting Chen and Jin Wang), Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 145, 103731, 2025.
"The environmental cost of power outages: Evidence from Delhi" (with Dana Kassem) Journal of Public Economics, 242, 105289.
“Exclusion and Embrace on Gig Platforms: Roles of Background Check Laws, Digitally-Enabled Solutions, and Community Resources” with Arun Rai and Yanzhen Chen, MIS Quarterly 48.4 (2024): 1691-1720.
“Cities and the Sea Level” (with Thomas McDermott and Guy Michaels), Journal of Urban Economics, 143 (2024): 103685.
“Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology-aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts” with Fangyuan Peng, Jin Wang and Lin Yang, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16.4 (2024): 280-315.
“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.