I am a PhD student in Economics at the Universtity of Houston.
My research fields are International, Spatial, Macroeconomics and Financial Regulation.
I focus my research mainly on analyzing economic interactions over space, identifying and quantifying their driving forces, and deriving policy implications. I use both quantitative (international trade and macroeconomic) models and empirical (micro-econometrics and time series) methods.
Here is my CV and Research Statement.
Job Market Paper / Dissertation
Working Paper
- The Decline in China’s Trade Share of GDP: A Structural Accounting (PDF)
- Accounting for China’s Province-Level Border Effects ( joint with Jun Nie. )
draft coming soon - Expectation Sentiments and Consumption Fluctuations in the Time of COVID ( joint with Kunyao Xu. )
draft coming soon
Working in Progress
- Internal trade and optimal external tariff ( joint with Kei-Mu Yi. )
- China’s VAT Reforms, Distortions, and Intranational Trade
- The Effects of Macro-prudential Policies on Bank Efficiency and Profitability ( joint with Alice Ouyang. )
Conference Presentations
“Demographics, Trade, and Growth”
- UT-Austin, Texas A&M, U. of Houston Macro Job Candidates Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX 2023
“The Decline in China’s Trade Share of GDP: A Structural Accounting”
- Chinese Economic Association (CEA) Conference, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 2024
- Midwest International Trade Conference, Indianapolis, IN 2023
- Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Lubbock, TX 2023
“The Effects of Macro-prudential Policies on Bank Efficiency and Profitability”
- Western Economic Association 15th International Conference, Tokyo 2019