Journal Publication

• Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Agglomeration: Evidence from China  (with Wen-Tai Hsu, Lu Yi and Zhu Lianming) Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(2), June 2023, 610-639
• Product Technology Adoption and Aggregate Innovation (with Qiugu He and Fan Zheng) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 179, October 2025, 105177
• ​Antipollution Willingness and Urban Population Distribution: Evidence from Chinese Cities (with Yong Yang, Yao-Yu Chih and Chenfei Wen), Economic Modelling,154, January 2026, 107360

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Working Papers

• Interdependent Development: Market Size and Institutions in a Global Economy​ (with Wen-Tai Hsu) 
• Seeing is Believing: International Outsourcing and Face-to-face Interactions (with Zhuo Zhou)
• Catalysts for Third-country Market Entry: the Role of Preferential Trade Agreements (with Qiugu He) R&R at World Development
• Deep Integration of Export Destinations and Innovation: Evidence from China (with Zhen Yu, Chenxi Li and  Xue Li)  R&R at Canadian Journal of Economics
• Contracting Institutions and Migration: A Quantitative Analysis of China (with Cindy Xin Zou)​
• Intellectual Property Protection in Regional Trade Agreements and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the World (with Zhao Rong, Fuxin Zhang and Shiqi Weng)​ 
• Industrial Subsidy Policy and Capital Misallocation in China  (with Jianhuan Xu and Shang-Jin Wei)
• The Political Economy of Land Supply: The Case of China (with Wen-Tai Hsu, Yang Tang and Cindy Xin Zou)

Selected Work-in-Progress

• The Rise of Chinese Exports: Knowledge Spillovers Within and Across Industry Boundaries (with Pushan Dutt and Lin Tian)
• Specialization Patterns of Exporters: Evidence from China (with Pushan Dutt and Lin Tian)​​