I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy (3E) at Tsinghua University. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston in 2025, where I was supervised by Dr. Kei-Mu Yi.
My current research lies at the intersection of international economics, environmental economics, and the Chinese economy. My research focuses on analyzing economic and environmental interactions across space, identifying causal relationships and quantifying their underlying forces, as well as deriving policy implications. I employ both quantitative models (especially structural trade and macroeconomic models) and empirical methods (time-series, reduced form, and structural econometric model).
Here is my CV .
Selected Working Papers
- Demographics, Trade, and Growth (joint with Wei Jin), Short Version (Draft)
- The Decline in China’s Trade Share of GDP: A Structural Accounting, Draft
- Domestic Market Segmentation and Spatial Income Inequality (joint with Jun Nie), Draft
- Two Papers on CGE and NQTM Models with Emissions (both co-authored with Da Zhang, Anton C. Yang, and Chenfei Qu; drafts coming soon):
- Biofuel Policy, Trade, and Land-Use Change
- The Cost of Going It Alone: Carbon Consequences of Deglobalization via Green Trade and FDI
Selected Papers in Progress
- Internal Trade and Optimal External Tariff (joint with Kei-Mu Yi)
- AI and Technology Diffusion (joint with Wei Jin and Jun Nie)
- On Deglobalization and Inequality (joint with Jun Nie)
- Firms, Immigration, and Home Trade Bias (joint with Jun Nie)
Conference
- 29th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Kyoto, Japan, June 17–19, 2026 (forthcoming)
- 12th International Conference on the Chinese Economy: Past, Present, and Future, Shandong University, China, 2025
- UT Austin; Texas A&M University; University of Houston Macro Job Candidates Workshop; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2024
- Chinese Economic Association Conference (Online), 2024
- Midwest International Trade Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2023
- Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Lubbock, TX, 2023
- 15th International Conference of the Western Economic Association, Tokyo, 2019
Seminar
- Nankai University (NKIIE), 2025;
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SHINE-YES-With-NO), 2025