Working Papers

• A theory of power structure and institutional compatibility: China vs. Europe revisited, with Ruixue Jia and Gérard Roland​​ 
  • Earlier version: NBER Working Paper 28403, CEPR Discussion Paper 15700 
  • Commentary: VoxEU
• Erosion of state power, corruption control, and political stability, with Weijia Li and Gérard Roland​​, revision and resubmission requested, Economic Journal
• Crony capitalism, the party-state, and the political boundaries of corruption, with Weijia Li and Gérard Roland​​, revision and resubmission requested, Journal of Comparative Economics​​

Publications

• He, Guojun, Yang Xie, and Bing Zhang. 2020. Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China. Journal of Development Economics 145: 102485
• Xie, Yang, and David Zilberman. 2018. Water storage capacity versus water use efficiency: Substitutes or complements? Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 5: 265–299
• Poudel, Biswo N., Yang Xie, and David Zilberman. 2018. Water supply and dams in agriculture. In Cramer, Gail L., Krishna P. Paudel, and Andrew Schmitz (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics, chapter 17. New York: Routledge, 285–298
• ​Xie, Yinxi, and Yang Xie. 2017. Machiavellian experimentation. Journal of Comparative Economics​ 45: 685–711 (lead article)
• Roland, Gérard, and Yang Xie. 2016. Culture and collective action. In Besley, Timothy (ed.) Contemporary Issues in Development Economics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 44–60
• Xie, Yang, and David Zilberman. 2016. Theoretical implications of institutional, environmental, and technological changes for capacity choices of water projects. Water Resources and Economics 13: 19–29
• Xie, Yang. 2016. Essays on Microeconomic Theory with Applications in Political and Resource Economics. ​Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley
• Sun, Zhen, and Yang Xie. 2013. Error analysis and comparison of two algorithms measuring compensated income. Computational Economics 42: 433–452
• Cao, Jing, and Yang Xie. 2011. Diesel demand per capita elasticities in China, 1999–2007. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology) 51: 241–244 (in Chinese)