Working Papers
- Hobbesian wars and separation of powers, with Weijia Li and Gérard Roland
- A theory of power structure and institutional compatibility: China vs. Europe revisited, with Ruixue Jia and Gérard Roland
- Revision and resubmission requested, Journal of the European Economic Association
- Earlier version: NBER Working Paper 28403, CEPR Discussion Paper 15700
- Commentary: VoxEU
- Market vs. planning: Emission abatement under incomplete information and with local externalities, with Guojun He and Yuhang Pan
Journal Articles
- Erosion of state power, corruption control and fiscal capacity, with Weijia Li and Gérard Roland
- Economic Journal, 2022
- Crony capitalism, the party-state, and the political boundaries of corruption, with Weijia Li and Gérard Roland
- Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022
- Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China, with Guojun He and Bing Zhang
- Journal of Development Economics, 2020
- Water storage capacity versus water use efficiency: Substitutes or complements? with David Zilberman
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2018
- Machiavellian experimentation, with Yinxi Xie
- Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, lead article of the issue
- Theoretical implications of institutional, environmental, and technological changes for capacity choices of water projects, with David Zilberman
- Water Resources and Economics, 2016
- Error analysis and comparison of two algorithms measuring compensated income, with Zhen Sun
- Computational Economics, 2013
Book Chapters
- Water supply and dams in agriculture, with Biswo N. Poudel and David Zilberman
- The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2018
- Routledge, edited by Gail L. Cramer, Krishna P. Paudel, and Andrew Schmitz
- The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2018
- Culture and collective action, with Gérard Roland
- Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, 2016
- Palgrave Macmillan, International Economic Association Series, edited by Timothy Besley
- Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, 2016
Other Papers
- Land reclamation, wetland reservation, and flood control: Optimal policy, spatial externalities, and strategic behaviors, with David Zilberman
- AAEA Annual Meeting, 2018, selected paper presentation
- Implications of climate change for adaptations through water infrastructure and conservation, with David Zilberman and David Roland-Holst
- ASSA Annual Meeting (AAEA Session), 2015, invited paper presentation
- Diesel demand per capita elasticities in China, 1999–2007, with Jing Cao
- Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), 2011, in Chinese
