Research Papers

Publications

• The Unintended Consequence of Trade Liberalization: Input Tariff Reduction and Firm Energy Rebound Effect in China

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 237: 107116. With Kerui Du and Cheng Zhao.

• Going Green in China: Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2025, 58(1): 385-410. With Haichao Fan, Joshua Graff Zivin, Zonglai Kou, and Huanhuan Wang.

NBER Working Paper No. 26540. Coverage: VoxDev, VoxChina.

• The Cause and Consequence of Robot Adoption in China: Minimum Wages and Firms’ Responses

Fundamental Research, 2025, 5(4): 1759-1770. With Richard B. Freeman, Zhikuo Liu, Ran Song, and Ruixiang Xiong.

• Import Competition and Energy Efficiency: Firms’ Responses to the WTO Accession in China

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214: 670-690. With Yu Liu and Ruili Zhao.

• From Equality to Polarization: Changes in Urban China’s Gender Earnings Gap from 1988 to 2016

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205: 303-337. With Sharon Xuejing Zuo.

• Environmental Regulation Mitigates Energy Rebound Effect

Energy Economics, 2023, 125: 106851. With Kerui Du and Cheng Zhao.

• Minimum Wages, Import Status, and Firms’ Innovation: Theory and Evidence from China

Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59(1): 441-458. With Angus C. Chu, Haichao Fan, Yuichi Furukawa, and Zonglai Kou.

• Labor Union and the Wealth-income Ratio

Economics Letters, 2018, 167: 29-35. With Angus C. Chu and Zonglai Kou.

Working Papers

• Population Aging and Robot Adoption: Evidence from China

(April 2025) – With Kerui Du, Zonglai Kou, and Cheng Zhao - Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Population Economics

• The Environmental Costs of Fiscal Distress: Evidence from China

(April 2025) – With Chaoliang Liu, Yu Liu, and Cheng Zhao

• Intellectual Property Judicial Reform, Litigation Bias, and Innovation: An “AI-Court” Approach and Evidence from China

(December 2024) – With Hanming Fang, Zonglai Kou, and Wentian Zhao

• The Consequences of Export Controls in Target Countries

(August 2024) – With Yu Liu, Alexey Makarin, and Jaya Wen - Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 25-004

Papers in Chinese

• 减税与企业工业机器人应用

《中国工业经济》, 2025, 7: 81-99. 合作者：赵城, 寇宗来。

• 中国企业的专利行为：特征事实以及来自创新政策的影响

《经济研究》, 2020, 3: 83-99. 合作者：寇宗来。

2023年，上海市第十六届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖（论文类）二等奖。

• “五年规划”与中国企业跨境并购

《经济研究》, 2019, 4: 149-164. 合作者：钟宁桦, 温日光。

2020年，《世界经济年鉴》“国际投资学2019年最佳中文论文Top10”。

2022年，上海市第十五届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖（论文类）二等奖。

2024年，教育部第九届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（人文社会科学）青年成果奖。