Working papers

1. Breaking Borders: The Impact of Learning on Gains from Trade (under review)

2. Structural Transformation, Gender Norms and Intrahousehold Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Jiaqi Li)   (under review)

[funded by STEG PhD grant 1286]

3. Estimating nonbalanced growth path: three-factor model and structural change 

Work in progress

1. Resilient innovation through knowledge diffusion under trade shocks

-- Past and future presentations: 3rd Keio ICEAM, 2025 Midwest Trade Conference (Virginia Tech), Institute of Developing Economies, IER and KIER Macroeconomics Senimar Series, ESWC 2025 (Seoul)

2. Carbon Border Adjustments and Unemployment in Global Value Chains (with Haitao Cheng)

Publications 

1. The Hubei lockdown and its global impacts via supply chains, Review of International Economics,2022, 30( 4), 1087– 1109. *One of the most downloaded papers during its first 12 months of publication (year 2022) on ROIE.

Pre-Graduate School Publications 

2. Does one path fit all? An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Energy Consumption and Economic Development for Individual Chinese Provinces. Energy, 2018, 150: 527-543 (with Yu Hao, Hua Liao) 

3. Does government expenditure affect environmental quality? Empirical evidence using Chinese city-level data. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, 161: 143-152. (with Shengling Zhang, Zhiyi Ding, Yu Hao.)

4. A reexamination of the existence of environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions: evidence from G20 countries. Natural Hazards, 2017, 85(2): 1023-1042. (with Guangyu Luo, Jia-Hsi Weng, Yu Hao.) 

5. Will income inequality affect environmental quality? Analysis based on China’s provincial panel data. Ecological Indicators, 2016, 67:533-542. (with Heyin Chen, Yu Hao.) 

6. Is there convergence in per capita SO2 emissions in China? An empirical study using city-level panel data. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 108A: 944–954. (with Yu Hao, Ming Zhong, Baihe Li.)