Working Papers
Political and Comparative Economics
- A theory of power structure and institutional compatibility: China vs. Europe revisited, with Ruixue Jia and Gérard Roland
- Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming
- 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
- Machiavellian experimentation, with Yinxi Xie
- Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, lead article of the issue
- Culture and collective action, with Gérard Roland
- Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, 2016, IEA Conference Volume
Environment, Resource, Development, and Welfare Economics
- 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
- Water supply and dams in agriculture, with Biswo N. Poudel and David Zilberman
- The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2018
- 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
- Diesel demand per capita elasticities in China, 1999–2007, with Jing Cao
- Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), 2011, in Chinese
Resting Papers
- Land reclamation, wetland reservation, and flood control: Optimal policy, spatial externalities, and strategic behaviors, with David Zilberman
- AAEA Annual Meeting, 2018
- Implications of climate change for adaptations through water infrastructure and conservation, with David Zilberman and David Roland-Holst
- ASSA Annual Meeting, 2015
