My research interests include urban economics and international trade. I am particularly interested in examining how national and regional policies shape the spatial distribution of economic activities.
Working Papers
- The Long and Short-run Spatial Impacts of Trade, joint with Lin Ma and Yunlong Song.
- Spatial Misallocation in Housing and Land Markets: Evidence from China, joint with Yongheng Deng, Ping Wang and Jing Wu, August 2022. NBER Working Paper w27230.
- Within-Job Wage Inequality: Performance Pay and Skill Match, joint with Rongsheng Tang and Ping Wang, September 2022. NBER Working Paper w27390.
- A Tale of Two Tails: Inequality and City Size, joint with Lin Ma.
Publications
- Was China's Housing Boom a Bubble?, joint with Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund and Ping Wang. Forthcoming at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review.
- The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Networks in China, joint with Lin Ma, May 2023. Journal of International Economics, Volume 148, March 2024, 103873.
- Migration and Resource Misallocation in China, joint with Lin Ma and Xiaolu Li. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 16, March 2024, 103218.
- Rural-urban Migration, Structural Change and Housing Boom in China, joint with Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund and Ping Wang. NBER Working Paper w23819. AEJ: Macro 2023, 15(2):413–440.
- The Aggregate and Distributional Impacts of Residence Policy Relaxation, joint with Rongsheng Tang and Rongjie Zhang. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Volume 69, August 2024, pp. 343–376.
- A Tale of Two Policies: The Distributional Impacts of Migration and Land Policy in China, joint with Xiaolu Li. The Singapore Economic Review, Volume 69, Issue 03, pp. 915–934.
- Market Formation in China from 1978, joint with Rongsheng Tang. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 95, July 2022, 103784.
- Rural-urban Migration and House Prices in China, joint with Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund and Ping Wang. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 91, November 2021, 103613.
- Geography, Trade and Internal Migration in China, joint with Lin Ma. Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 115, January 2020.
- The Rising House Price Dispersion in the United States during 1975–2017, joint with Ting Zeng and Shenghao Zhu. Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 63, March 2020.
- Determinants of Urban Land Supply in China: Do Political Factors Matter?, joint with Wen-tai Hsu, Xiaolu Li and Jing Wu. Asian Development Review, 34(2), September 2017, pp. 152–183.
- Public and Private Housing Markets Dynamics in Singapore: The Role of Fundamentals, joint with Wai-mun Chia and Mengling Li. Journal of Housing Economics, 36, 2017, pp. 44–61.
- When Natives Meet Immigrants in Public and Private Housing Markets, joint with Xiaolu Li. Journal of Housing Economics, 41, 2018, pp. 30–44.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of Union Membership without Collective Bargaining Benefits, joint with Soon-Beng Chew. Singapore Economic Review, Volume 61(3), June 2016.
- Reduced mRNA and Protein Expression Levels of Tet Methylcytosine Dioxygenase 3 in Endothelial Progenitor Cells of Patients of Type 2 Diabetes with Peripheral Artery Disease, joint with Guoxun Chen, Shi Zhao, et al. Frontiers in Immunology, December 2018, Volume 9.