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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
  • Culture and collective action, with Gérard Roland
    • Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, 2016
    • Palgrave Macmillan, International Economic Association Series, edited by Timothy Besley 

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 
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