I. Working Papers

• Market vs. Planning: Abating Carbon Emissions under Incomplete Information and with Local Externalities (with Yuhang Pan and Yang Xie). ​  

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• Media Competition, Media Capture, and Pollution in China (with Hua Cheng). 

 

• Locusts Fly, Babies Die: Desert Locusts and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Countries (with Pak Hang Lam).

 

• Sophie and the Locust Curse: Effects of Locust Plague on Human Capital Accumulation (with  Yu Bai, Pak Hung Lam, Yanjun Li)
   

• Climate Risks and The Performance of Chinese-Listed Companies (with Shuo Li)

 

• The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery: The Case of Caligraphy (with Yucheng Quan) 

 

• From Green Intent to Green Outcome: Addressing Belief Misalignment in Platform Sustainability Initiatives (with Junming Zhu, etc.). 

 

• The Demand, Supply, and Market Responses of Corporate ESG Actions: Evidence from a Nationwide Field Experiment in China, (with Qinrui Xiahou)

 

• Carbon Market with Chinese Characteristics (with Libo Wu, Naifu Zhang, Yang Zhou) 

 

• Market Access and Firm Performance: Evidence from China (with Xing Hu, Shengyu Li, Hongsong Zhang) 

 

• Healing Nature at Scale and Return: Lessons from China’s Ecological Restoration (with Yuanning Liang, Yuhang Pan, Jianwei Xing, Jintao Xu, Zheng Zhong, and Eric Zou)

 

• Beyond Ethical Concerns: Animal Fur Trade, Processing and Human Mortality Risks (with Hongyu Nian, Jingbo Cui, and Haitao Yin)

• Scaling up Renewables Like China

    
Resting Working Papers:

• ​Suicide and Lockdowns during China's COVID-19 Pandemic (with Jinlei Qi, Dandan Zhang, Maigeng Zhou et al.).

           (Unfortunately, this paper cannot be published.)
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• Grabbing Hand Tight, Bodyweight Light: The Unintended Health Benefits from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign (with Limin Wang, Bobing Qiu, Xiao Zhang, and Maigeng Zhou)

​           (Unfortunately, another group of scholars published a similar idea paper earlier than us, so we stopped submitting the paper)

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II. Working in Progress

• Nudging Environmentally Friendly Behaviors through Platform Companies ​

• Economics of ESG

 

• Biodiversity

 

• Impacts of Power Infrastructure

 

• Multi-tasking in Environmental Regulation

 

• The Selection and Making of Civil Servants

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• Anti-Corruption and Consequences

 

• Supply Chain ESG Management

 

• AI-Assisted Decisions