Working Papers
Talent, Geography, and Offshore R&D [PDF] [Online Appendix] (June, 2020)
- Info on processing Orbis historic data [PDF]
Financing Multinationals, with Wenlan Luo [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Slides] (Oct, 2019)
Valuing Domestic Transport Infrastructure: A View from the Route Choice of Exporters, with Wenlan Luo and Yi Lu
[PDF] [Online Appendix] [Slides] (Jan, 2021) R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics
-Note: a Tractable Model of Transshipment [PDF], with Wenlan Luo (Jul, 2020)
Industrialization from Scratch: The "Third Front" and Local Economic Development in China’s Hinterland, with Ben Zou
[PDF] [Online Appendix] (Dec, 2020) R&R, Journal of Development Economics
[About the Third Front Movement (Wikipedia)]
Selected Work in Progress
Offshore R&D, High-skilled Immigration, and Firm Dynamics, with Eunhee Lee and Valerie Smeets
Publications
Internal Geography, Labor Mobility, and the Distributional Impacts of Trade,
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 11 No. 3 July 2019
[PDF] [Online 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
[PDF] [Online 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 [PDF]
Talent, Geography, and Offshore R&D [PDF] [Online Appendix] (June, 2020)
- Info on processing Orbis historic data [PDF]
Financing Multinationals, with Wenlan Luo [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Slides] (Oct, 2019)
Valuing Domestic Transport Infrastructure: A View from the Route Choice of Exporters, with Wenlan Luo and Yi Lu
[PDF] [Online Appendix] [Slides] (Jan, 2021) R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics
-Note: a Tractable Model of Transshipment [PDF], with Wenlan Luo (Jul, 2020)
Industrialization from Scratch: The "Third Front" and Local Economic Development in China’s Hinterland, with Ben Zou
[PDF] [Online Appendix] (Dec, 2020) R&R, Journal of Development Economics
[About the Third Front Movement (Wikipedia)]
Selected Work in Progress
Offshore R&D, High-skilled Immigration, and Firm Dynamics, with Eunhee Lee and Valerie Smeets
Publications
Internal Geography, Labor Mobility, and the Distributional Impacts of Trade,
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 11 No. 3 July 2019
[PDF] [Online 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
[PDF] [Online 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 [PDF]