Publications:  
  • "The Trade and Welfare Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative", with Meng Gao, Chenxin Jin, Bin Sheng, and Linpu Xu,       Review of International Economics, 2024, 32(2):446-479. (Article  Code & Data  Working Paper)
 
  • "Geopolitics along the Value Chains", with Renjing Chen, Chenxin Jin, Bin Sheng, and Guanxiang Wang,                                          China Economic Review, 2025, Volume 90, p. 102341. (Article  Code & Data  Working Paper  Online Appendix)
 
  • "The Dynamic Trade and Welfare Effects of RCEP", with Chenxin Jin, Bin Sheng, Zhen Sun, and Bing Yan, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2025, Volume 154, p. 103329. (Article  Code & Data  Working Paper  Online Appendix)
 
  • "Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy with Strategic Interactions", with Mengmeng Dai, Wen-Tai Hsu, Yongjin Wang, and Siqiang Yang, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2026, Volume 104, p. 103236. ​ (Article  Code & Data)
 
  • "The Depth of Preferential Trade Agreements", with Pao-Li Chang and Kefang Yao, IMF Economic Review, 2025, Accepted. 
 
  • "The Olympic Effect Revisited: 1950-2019", with Renjing Chen, Meng Gao, Wenzheng Gao,  and Yuqian Sun, World Development, 2025, Conditionally Accepted. 
 
  • "Banking Shareholder and the Debt Behaviour of Chinese Real Estate Firms", with Zhuqing Liu, Feng Qian, Ziliang Yu, and Weibiao Xu, Applied Economics Letters, 2025. (Article)
 
  • "Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports", with Renjing Chen and Tangrui Yang, International Studies of Economics, 2025. (Article)
 
  • "The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Energy Trade: An Empirical Analysis Based on Gravity Model", with Xirong Chen, Wenzheng Gao, and Yuqian Sun, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2025. (Article)
 
  • "From profit to planet: ESG's impact on Chinese companies' cross-border M&A activity", with Bing Yan, Meng Gao, Qiugu He, Siqiang Yang, and Renjia Zhang, Applied Economics, 2025. (Article)

Working Papers:
  • ​"Yesterday Once More: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Multinational Corporations' Reinvestment Allocation in China", with Bing Yan, Shaoyu Guo, and Xiaojing Jiang, R&R at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • "Guns and Gravity: Is There a Home-Market Effect in the Global Arms Trade?", with Meng Gao, Chenxin Jin, Chaodui Shao, Danni Su, Guanxiang Wang, and Mingyang Wei, R&R at Review of International Economics
  • "The GATT/WTO Welfare Effects: 1950-2015", with Pao-Li Chang and Kefang Yao, submitted
  • "Disentangling the Effects of GATT/WTO on Variable and Fixed Trade Costs: Trade Status, Trade Margins, and Export Sales Distribution", with Pao-Li Chang and Renjing Chen, submitted
  • "Diligence Redeems Stupidity: Managerial Effort Makes a Difference", with Renjing Chen, Yuting Chen, Meng Gao, and Jiantong Li