Selected Publications
Housing economics & household finance
"Tour detour: Intermediaries’ search diversion in rental markets". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming. (with Yuqi Fu and Zan Yang)
"Search Frictions in Rental Markets: Evidence from Urban China". China Economic Review, forthcoming. (with Yuqi Fu, Zan Yang and Ming Chen)
"Risk-sharing networks, consumption, and asset allocation: Micro-evidence from China". Emerging Markets Review, forthcoming. (with Yidi Wang and Zan Yang)
"Macroeconomic Policy-Induced Wealth Effects on Chinese Foreign Housing Investments". China Economic Review, forthcoming. (with Tien Foo Sing)
“How Does Mortgage Debt Affect Household Consumption? Micro Evidence from China". Real Estate Economics, 2020, 48(1), 43-88. (with Abdullah Yavas)
"Living Arrangement of Elderly: Estimation of Choice Constraints in China". China Economic Review, 2018, 50, 101-116. (with Shuai Fang and Zan Yang)
"A Reexamination of Housing Price and Household Consumption in China: The Dual Role of Housing Consumption and Housing Investment". Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2018, 56(3), 472-499. (with Zan Yang and Liqing Zhao)
"Informal Borrowing and Home Purchase: Evidence from Urban China". Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 67, 108-118. (with Jing Wu and Zan Yang)
"Housing Assets to the Elderly in Urban China: To Fund or to Hedge?". Housing Studies, 2017, 32(5), 638-658. (with Zan Yang and Cindy Cheung)
Price dynamics
"Demand Shocks and Price Stickiness in Housing Market Dynamics". Economic Modelling, forthcoming.
"Tracking the Pulse of a City – 3D Real Estate Price Heat Maps". Journal of Regional Science, 2021, 61(3), 543-569. (with Sumit Agarwal, Daniel McMillen and Tien Foo Sing)
"Price Dynamics in Public and Private Commercial Real Estate Markets". Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, forthcoming (with Abdullah Yavas)
"Understanding Real Estate Price Dynamics: The Case of Housing Prices in Five Major Cities of China". Journal of Housing Economics, 2019, 43, 37-55. (with Zan Yang and Abdullah Yavas)
Other topics
"Optimization of density regulation under urban transformation: Implications from urban redevelopment in Hong Kong". Cities. forthcoming. (with Hengtai Yu)
"Time-varying and land use-induced spillover effects of urban redevelopment: Evidence from Hong Kong". Cities, forthcoming. (with Yuqi Fu and Zonghe Qian)
"Collaborative Integration, Workplace Flexibility and Scholarly Productivity: Evidence from the COVID-19 Outbreak". Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2023, 87, 1-15.
"Financial Conditions, Local Competition, and Local Market Leaders: The Case of Real Estate Developers". Pacific Economic Review, 2022, 27(2), 131-193. (with Charles Leung and Zan Yang)
"Political Connections and Corporate Borrowing: An Analysis on the Listed Real Estate Firms in China". Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2018, 57(3), 315-350. (with Zan Yang, Song Shi and Jing Liao)
"Determinants of Household Carbon Emissions: Pathway toward Eco-Community in Beijing". Habitat International, 2016, 57, 175-186. (with Zan Yang and Siqi Zheng)
Selected Book Chapters
Greening the Housing Stock: Toward Net-zero Cities in East Asia. World Scientific.
"Housing in Household Consumption in Beijing, China". In Anthony M. Orum (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. 2020. (with Zan Yang)