WORKING PAPER
- From Shipments to Supply Chains: Mining Input-Output Links from Firm-level Trade Flows (with Karsten Mau and Yawen Zheng), Maastricht University Working Paper, 2026.
- Conspicuous Inequality: Speculative Housing Booms and Property Crime in China, (with Hong Ma, You Shan and Yu Pan), 2026, Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Public Economics.
- Inequality and Market Power: Evidence from the United States and China (with Luca Macedoni and Yumin Hu), CESifo Working Paper No. 12181, 2025.
- Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration (with Lin Ma, Yuan Mei, and Qunfeng Wu), SSRN Working Paper, 2026.
- Learning by AI: Market Intelligence and Exporting (with Alexis Antoniades, Chuan He and Zheming Liang), CESifo Working Paper No. 12456, SSRN Working Paper, 2026.
- International Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development (with Karsten Mau and Yawen Zheng), CESifo Working Paper No. 12027, 2025.
Media Coverage: De Dagelijkse Standaard
- Patents over Progress: Government R&D Consortia and University–Industry Collaboration (with Yanzhe Wang and Tony W. Tong), Working Paper, 2025. Revise & Resubmit at European Economic Review .
- Firm Linkages and Domestic Value Added in Exports: Moving up the Global Value Chains with High-Speed Railways (with Hiau Looi Kee and Enze Xie), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No.10985, 2025.
- High-speed Rail and the Demand for Skill: Evidence from Chinese Exports (with Yumin Hu), SSRN Working Paper, 2024, Reject and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
- Tariffs Tax the Poor More: Evidence from Household Consumption During the US-China Trade War (with Hong Ma, Luca Macedoni, and Jingxin Ning), CESifo Working Paper No. 11610, 2024. (Online Presentation Video)
Media Coverage: SCIPod
- Horizontal Regulatory Barriers in International Trade: Evidence from Electric Plugs (with Yuan Mei), SSRN Working Paper, 2024, Conditional Accept at Journal of International Economics.
- Where to Save Matters: Impact of Aging-induced Saving on Structural Change and Growth (with Yanliang Miao and Tian Xia ), SSRN Working Paper, 2025. Revise & Resubmit at International Economic Review.
- Learn in Order to Practice: the Effect of Political Rotation on Local Comparative Advantage in China (with Justin Yifu Lin, Songrui Liu and Haochen Zhang), With Appendix, SSRN Working Paper, 2024, Revise & Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies (Online Presentation Video)
Media Coverage: VOXDev
- The Trans-Sumatra Toll Road and Economic Geography in Indonesia (with Yue Li, and Yumin Hu), SSRN Working Paper / AIIB Working Paper, 2024. Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Economic Geography.
PUBLICATION
JOURNAL
- Exploiting or Augmenting Labor? (with Michael Rubens and Yingjie Wu), 2025, American Economic Review: Insights.
- Keeping an Eye on the Villain: Assessing the Impact of Surveillance Cameras on Crime, (with Hong Ma, Wei You and Jinmei Feng), 2025, Journal of Development Economics.
- Cushioning the Shock: The Rise of Nonstandard Work Amid the US-China Trade War (with Chuan He, Hong Ma, and He Li), 2025, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
- Estimating Factor Price Markdowns using Production Models (with Michael Rubens and Yingjie Wu), 2025, International Journal of Industrial Organization
- The Criminogenic Consequence of Export Slowdown: Evidence from Millions of Court Judgement Documents in China (with Hong Ma and Yu Pan), SSRN Working Paper, 2025. Economic Journal.
- Large Firms in Retail Markets: Multiple Products for Heterogeneous Consumers (with Luca Macedoni and Robert C. Feenstra), NBER Working Paper No. 29646, With Online Appendix, 2025. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
- How U.S. Tariffs Impact China's Domestic Sourcing: Evidence from Firm-to-firm Transactions (with Binkai Chen, Dongmei Guo, Yuting Li, and Junjie Xia), 2024, Journal of International Money and Finance.
- Trade Liberalization, Labor Market Power, and Misallocation across Firms: Evidence from China’s WTO Accession (with Enze Xie and Miaojie Yu), 2024. Journal of Development Economics.
- Misallocation in the Chinese Land Market (with Xuan Fei and Yumin Hu), 2024. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique.
- Multi-product Firm Price and Variety Response to Firm-specific Cost Shocks, (with Alexis Antoniades and Sofronis Clerides), 2023. International Journal of Industrial Organization.
- Micro‐responses to Shocks: Pricing, Promotion, and Entry, (with Alexis Antoniades and Sofronis Clerides), CEPR Discussion Paper 13281, 2023. Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
- Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education (with Gaurav Khanna, Kevin Shih, Ariel Weinberger and Miaojie Yu), 2023, Review of Economics and Statistics.
- Using the Retail Distribution of Sellers to Impute Expenditures Shares (with Robert C. Feenstra and Alexis Antoniades), NBER Working Paper No. 28902, 2022 American Economic Review.
- Flexibility and Productivity: Towards the Understanding of Firm Heterogeneity for Multi-product Exporters (with Luca Macedoni), With Online Appendix, 2022. International Economic Review.
- Anxiety or Pain? The Impact of Tariffs and Uncertainty on Chinese Firms in the Trade War (with Felipe Benguria, Jaerim Choi and Deborah L. Swenson), NBER Working Paper No. 27920, With Online Appendix, 2022, Journal of International Economics.
- An Eye for an Eye? The Trade and Price Effects of China's Retaliatory Tariffs on US Exports (with Hong Ma and Jingxin Ning), 2021, China Economic Review.
- Trade Shocks and Firms' Hiring Decisions: Evidence from Vacancy Postings of Chinese Firms in the Trade War (with Karsten Mau and Chuan He), 2021. Labour Economics.
- Globalization, the Skill Premium, and Income Distribution: The Role of Selection into Entrepreneurship, 2020. Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv ).
- What is the Price of Tea in China? Towards the Relative Cost of Living in Chinese and U.S. Cities (with Robert C. Feenstra and Alexis Antoniades), NBER Working Paper No. 23161, 2020. Economic Journal.
- The Labor Market Effects of the China Syndrome: Evidence from South Korean Manufacturing (with Jaerim Choi), INSE Working Paper No. E2019007, 2019, The World Economy.
- Rising Wages and Intra-Country Industry Relocation: Evidence from China (with Karsten Mau and Yuting Li), First Version 2018, Revised Version, 2022, Open Economies Review.
- Innovation-adjusted Economic Complexity and Growth: Do Patent Flows Reveal Enhanced Economic Capabilities? (with Travis J. Lybbert), First Version 2018, Revised Version, 2021, Review of Development Economics.
BOOK CHAPTER
- FDI Effects on the Labor Market of Host Countries (with Galina Hale), Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper 16-25, Sept 2016, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, World Scientific Press.