Working Papers:

1. "Early 20th Century American Exceptionalism: Production, Trade and Diffusion of the Automobile." (with Mario J. Crucini, Hyunseung Oh, and Hakan Yilmazkuday) 

• NBER WP 26121. [NBER WP]   [Replication Files]   [VoxEU]    [AEI] 

• Current version: August, 2022

• Accepted at Journal of International Economics

2. "State-dependent Distribution Friction and the Transmission of Monetary Policy." (with Nam T. Vu)

• SSRN WP No. 3730638. [SSRN]

• Current version: July, 2024

3. "Innovation and Appropriation: Insights from the Chinese Patent Survey." (with Michael Klein and Fuat Sener)

• SSRN WP No. 4345122. [SSRN]

• Current version: February, 2023

• Revision requested at Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

4. "Natural Disasters and Asset Prices: Evidence from Winter Storm Uri." (with Nam T. Vu)

• SSRN WP No. 4542858. [SSRN]

• Current version: August, 2023

Work in Progress:

1. "Did Durable Goods Producing States Suffer a Greater Great Depression?" (with Mario J. Crucini and Hanjo T. Kim)

2. "Chinese Export Policy, Spatial Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity." (with Zhongzhong Hu and Joel Rodrigue)

Refereed Journal Articles:

1. "The Power Crunch and Firms' Anticipatory Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing SMEs in China." (with Xunpeng Shi)

• The Energy Journal, 45(3): 153-176, May 2024. [Published version] 

2. "Housing Boom and Non-housing Consumption: Evidence from Urban Households in China." (Sole Author)

• Empirical Economics, 61(6): 3271-3313, December 2021. [Published version] [Online appendix]

3. "Heterogeneous Impacts of Finance on Firm Exports: Evidence from Export Deregulation in A Large Developing Country." (with Zhongzhong Hu and Yong Tan)

• The World Economy, 44(11): 3326-3350, November 2021. [Published version]

4. "Early 20th Century American Exceptionalism on Wheels: The Role of Rapid Automobile Adoption in Economic Development." (with Alyssa Trebino*)

• Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 14(2): 211-221, August 2021. [Published version]

5. "Exporting and Electricity Consumption: New Microeconomic Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in China." (with Jian Yu and Hanyuan Zhang)

• Applied Economics Letters, 28(14): 1226-1233, July 2021. [Published version]

6. "The Impact of the Green Energy Infrastructure on Firm Productivity: Evidence from the Three Gorges Project in China." (with Xunpeng Shi and Jian Yu)

• International Review of Economics & Finance, 71: 385-406, January 2021. [Published version]

7. "Credit Rationing and Firm Exports: Microeconomic Evidence from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in China." (with Yong Tan and Jian Yu)

• The World Economy, 44: 286–311, January 2021. [Published version]

8. "Is Heterogeneous Capital Depreciation Important for Estimating Firm-level Productivity? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms." (with Jian Yu, Dayong Zhang, and Wenping Zheng)

• Research in International Business and Finance, 52: 101146, April 2020. [Published version]

9. "How Does the Chinese Economy React to Uncertainty in International Crude Oil Prices?" (with Xunpeng Shi, Jian Yu, and Dayong Zhang)

• International Review of Economics & Finance, 64: 147-164, November 2019. [Published version]

        *Undergraduate coauthors.

Other Publications:

1. "Early 20th Century American Exceptionalism: Production, Trade and Diffusion of the Automobile." (with Mario J. Crucini, Hyunseung Oh, and Hakan Yilmazkuday)

• • VoxEU, November 2019. [Link]