Working Papers
Trade and Technology Compatibility in General Equilibrium, with Weili Chen and Wenlan Luo [Manuscript and Appendix]
Best paper award, China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM) 2024
Model's implications on Technology Decoupling Caused by "Reciprocal Tariffs":
Trade and Technology Compatibility in General Equilibrium, with Weili Chen and Wenlan Luo [Manuscript and Appendix]
Best paper award, China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM) 2024
Model's implications on Technology Decoupling Caused by "Reciprocal Tariffs":
Learning and Expectations in Dynamic Spatial Economies, with Sungwan Hong and Fernando Parro [Manuscript and Appendix] [Supplementary Appendix]
Financing Multinationals, with Wenlan Luo [Manuscript] [Appendix]
R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics
Note: a Tractable Model of Transshipment [Note], with Wenlan Luo
High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics, with Eunhee Lee and Valerie Smeets [Manuscript and Appendix]
R&R, Review of Economic Studies
-Featured in VoxEU
The Dual Local Markets: Family, Jobs, and the Spatial Distribution of Skills, with Ben Zou [Manuscript] [Appendix]
Publications
Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration, with Lei Li [Manuscript and Appendix]
Accepted, Journal of International Economics
Talent, Geography, and Offshore R&D [Manuscript] [Appendix] [Supplementary Appendix] [Slides]
Review of Economic Studies, April 2024
- Info on processing Orbis historic data [Note]
Valuing Domestic Transport Infrastructure: A View from the Route Choice of Exporters, with Wenlan Luo and Yi Lu [Manuscript] [Slides]
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 105, Issue 6, November 2023
[Download] Model implied inter-city trade flow
Industrialization from Scratch: The "Third Front" and Local Economic Development in China’s Hinterland, with Ben Zou
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 152, September 2021
[Manuscript] [About the Third Front Movement (Wikipedia)] [Data and program]
Internal Geography, Labor Mobility, and the Distributional Impacts of Trade,
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 11 No. 3 July 2019
[Manuscript] [Appendix] [Supplementary Note: Hukou Reforms of Chinese Cities, 1997-2010: Data and Facts] [Data and program]
The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from e-Commerce, with Lixin Tang, Weiming Zhu, Ben Zou
Journal of International Economics, 114, 203-220, 2018
[Manuscript] [Appendix: robustness and results from an alternative model with variable mark-ups] [Data and program]
- Featured in VoxDev article
The Emergence of Asia: Reforms, Corporate Savings, and Global Imbalances, with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan,
IMF Economic Review, 64(2), 239-267, 2016 [Manuscript]
Other Publications
Foreign Direct Investment and Development. VoxDevLit CEPR. February 2025.
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