My current research filed lie at the intersection of International Economics, Environmental Economics, and the Chinese Economy.

Working Papers

• Biofuel Policy, Trade, and Land-Use Change (joint with Da Zhang, Steven Berry, Anton C. Yang, and Chenfei Qu). Draft coming soon.

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

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

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

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

• 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#). Draft submitted.

• Domestic Market Segmentation and Spatial Income Inequality (joint with Jun Nie). New draft coming soon.

Papers Working in Progress

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

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

Conference Presentations

• Macro Job Candidates Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX 2024
• Chinese Economic Association (CEA) Conference, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 2024
• Midwest International Trade Conference, Indianapolis, IN 2023
• Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Lubbock, TX 2023
• Western Economic Association 15th International Conference, Tokyo 2019

Seminars

• Shanghai Jiaotong University, SHINE, 2025; Nankai University, NKIIE, 2025;