Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

  • Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University, 2019-present

Publications

  • "What You Import Matters for Productivity Growth: Experience from Chinese Manufacturing Firms,"   (with Larry D. Qiu, Hongsong Zhang, and Xiaoyu Dong)   Journal of Development Economics, Volume 152, September 2021,  102677.  PDF (Working paper version)    Link
  • "Land Financing and Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Counties,"   China Economic Review, August 2018, Vol.50: 218-239.   PDF (Working paper version)    Slides    Link
  • "Government Intervention, Land Market, and Urban Development: Evidence from Chinese Cities," (with Jipeng Zhang and Jianyong Fan)  Economic Inquiry, January 2017, Vol.55(1): 115–136.  Link
  • "Housing Models and Urbanization in China: Empirical Research from the Perspective of Land Supply (居住模式与中国城镇化——基于土地供给视角的经验研究)," (with  Jianyong Fan and Jipeng Zhang) Social Sciences in China (in Chinese, 中国社会科学), April 2015: 44-63. 
  • "Local Government Debt, Land Market Institution and Regional Industrial Growth (地方债务, 土地市场与地区工业增长)," (with Jianyong Fan)  Economic Research Journal (in Chinese, ​经济研究), January 2014: 41-55.  Online Appendix1, Appendix2
  • "The Impact of Disaster Relief on Economic Growth: Evidence from China," (with Xian Xu) The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, May 2013, Vol.38: 495-520.
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Working Papers & Work in Progress

  • "Quantifying Network Advantage," March 2022.
  • "Polluted Games," with Ye Yuan and Zenan Wu, March 2022.   
  • "Transport Infrastructure and Spatial Distribution of Residents: Dispersion or Concentration?"  June 2020. 
  • "Road Infrastructure, Inventory, and Markup," with Hongsong Zhang and Yating Jiang, 2021.