Working Papers:

Multinational Production, Scale Economies, and the Rise (and Fall?) of the World Factory (with Zi Wang)

Super Factory Comes to Town: Quantifying the Agglomeration Spillovers from Foxconn Factory in Henan (with Hong Ma and Hongbing Wei)

Local Corporate Taxes and the Geography of Foreign Multinationals (with Chong Liu, Zi Wang and Yuan Zi)
Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, https://doi.org/10.1162/rest.a.279
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"De Minimis" Trade is not Minimal: Tariff Incentives and Platform Expansion (with Jialin Li and Linke Zhu)
Conditionally Accepted, Canadian Journal of Economics
Previously entitled "'De Minimis' Trade is no Minimal: Tax Avoidance and US-China Trade Conflicts"

Published Papers

Foreign Direct Investment and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China (with Zibin Huang, Qing Shi and Xin Zhao)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2026, Volume 246, 107557
VoxChina Column (link)​

The Costs of Duty Exemptions in Processing Trade (with Zi Wang)
China Economic Review, 2025, Volume 94, 102523

Trade Circumvention in Free Trade Areas (with Jialin Li, Jiacong Mai, Yanmin Shi and Linke Zhu)
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2025, Volume 150, 103232

 Trade Policy Uncertainty and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China’s WTO Accession (with Xiaohua Bao, Haoyu
Sun and Jin Sun)
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022, Volume 125, 102642, 

自愿性环境规制下的对外投资：基于绿色工厂的证据 （合作者：鲍晓华、唐岑岑）
《世界经济》2025年第4期

贸易保护主义抑制中国企业跨境并购（合作者：鲍晓华、尉亚宁）
《经济学（季刊）》 第25卷第6期，2025年11月 

Selected Work in Progress

The Last Mile Matters: How Delivery Infrastructure Shapes Online Trade and Consumption Inequality (with Tuo Chen, Hong Ma, Kim Ruhl and Jiawei Wu)

Import Competition and the Direction of Firm Innovation (with Xiaohua Bao, Kaiji Gong, Larry Qiu and Wentao Wu)