I am an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy (3E) at Tsinghua University. I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston, where I was supervised by Dr. Kei-Mu Yi.

My research lies at the intersection of international economics, quantitative trade, the Chinese economy, and environmental and energy economics. I study economic and environmental interactions across space, with a focus on identifying causal relationships, quantifying their underlying forces, and evaluating policy implications. My work combines quantitative models—especially structural trade and macroeconomic models—with empirical methods, including time-series analysis, reduced-form methods, and structural econometrics.

Here is my CV.

Revised and Resubmitted

• The Decline in China’s Trade Share of GDP: A Structural Accounting. Draft. Revise and Resubmit at the European Economic Review.

• Beyond Tariffs: The Trade and Welfare Effects of APEC (joint with Chenxin Jin, Wei Jin, Bin Sheng, and Heng Zhang). Draft.

Submitted Papers

• Land Allocation and the Carbon Consequences of Biofuel Expansion (joint with Steven Berry, Chenfei Qu, Anton C. Yang, and Da Zhang).

• Trade Diversion beyond IIA (joint with Da Zhang and Anton C. Yang).

• Trade and Welfare Effects of Deep Regional Integration: Evidence from the Mainland–Hong Kong CEPA (joint with Wei Jin and Jiawen Yan). Draft.

• Buy or Build Abroad? Host-Country News Tone and Chinese Firms’ OFDI Entry Mode (joint with Wei Jin and Jiawen Yan). Draft.

Preparing for Submission

• Love For Panda, Buy From China (joint with Wei Jin).

• Grasp the Large, but Why Not Let the Small Go: SOE Reform Inefficiency in China (joint with Qun Bao and Wei Jin).

• AI Knowledge Spillovers, R&D Resource Allocation, and Economic Growth in China: A Quantitative Multi-Country, Multi-Sector Trade Analysis (in Chinese; joint with Wei Jin, Lingyi Li, and Bin Sheng).

Working Papers

• Waters (joint with Costas Arkolakis, and Anton C. Yang).

• Internal Trade and Optimal External Tariff (joint with Kei-Mu Yi).

• Demographics, Trade, and Growth (Job Market Paper; joint with Wei Jin). New Draft. Old Draft.

• Greying and Gravity: Population Ageing and the Regional Gains from Integration in China (joint with Chenxin Jin, Wei Jin, Bin Sheng, and Bin Yan). Draft.

• Domestic Market Segmentation and Spatial Income Inequality (joint with Jun Nie). Draft.

Work in Progress

• Carbon Consequences of Deglobalization (joint with Chenfei Qu, Anton C. Yang, and Da Zhang).

Research Projects

• Benefits, Risks, and Equity of Power Interconnection for Coordinated Decarbonization between China and Its Neighboring Countries, Project Member.
  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Grant No. 72674155, 2027–2030.

• NetZeroAsia: ASEAN+X Power Grid Interconnections, NUS–Tsinghua NetZeroAsia Project, Project Member.
  National Research Foundation (NRF) CREATE Programme, Singapore, 2026–2029.

Conference

• 29th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Kyoto, Japan, 2026 (canceled)

• 12th International Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past, Present, and Future, Shandong, China, 2025

• Macro Job Candidates Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA, 2024

• Chinese Economic Association Conference (Virtual), Hangzhou, China, 2024

• Midwest International Trade Conference, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2023

• Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Lubbock, TX, USA, 2023

• 15th International Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Tokyo, Japan, 2019

Seminar

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SHINE-YES-With-NO), Shanghai, China, 2025

• Nankai University Conference, Tianjin, China, 2025

Teaching

• Energy and Environmental Economics (Ph.D.), Guest Lecture on CGE Models, Tsinghua University, Spring 2026

• Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate), Instructor, University of Houston, Fall 2022; Spring 2023; Fall 2023

• International Trade (Undergraduate), Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, Summer 2024

• International Monetary Economics (Undergraduate), Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, Fall 2021

• Econometrics I (Ph.D.), Homework Instructor, University of Houston, Spring 2021

• Quantitative Methods (Ph.D.), Homework Instructor, University of Houston, Fall 2020

• Money, Banking & Financial Markets (Undergraduate), Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, Spring 2020

• Macroeconomic Principles (Undergraduate), Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, Fall 2019