Journal Publications (in English)
· “Anti-dumping Duties andImpact on Exporters: Firm Level Evidence from China,” with Piyush Chandra. Forthcoming with World Development 2013, 51, pp. 169-186.
· “VAT rebates and exportperformance in China: Firm-level evidence,”with Piyush Chandra. Journal of Public Economics2013, 102(1), pp. 13-22.
· “Industry strategic variety and performance: The role of market andinstitutional forces in the Chinese industrial enterprises”, with Linghua Qin and Runtian Jing. Journal of Management Development 2013, 32(7), pp. 690 - 704.
· “What do Revolving Door Laws do?” with MarcLaw. Journal of Law and Economics 2012, 55(2), pp. 421-436.
· “Patterns of China’s Industrialization: Concentration, Specialization,and Clustering,” with Xiaobo Zhang. China Economic Review 2012, 23(3), pp.593-612.
· “Control Modes and Outcomes of Transformed SOEs inChina: An Empirical Test,” with Jun Xia, Shaomin Li, and Justin Tan. Management andOrganization Review 2012, 8(2), pp.283-309.
· “Revolving Door Laws andState Public Utility Commissioners,” with Marc Law. Regulation and Governance, 2011, 5(4),pp. 405-424.
· “Did Foreign Direct Investment Put an UpwardPressure on Wages in China?” with Galina Hale. IMF Economic Review, 2011, 59(3), pp. 404-430.
· “Cluster-Based Industrialization in China: Financing and Performance,”with Xiaobo Zhang. Journal of International Economics, 2011, 84(1), pp. 112-123.
· “Tournaments and Managerial Incentives inChina’s Listed Firms: New Evidence” with Takao Kato. China Economic Review, 2011, 22(1), pp.1-10.
· “Are there Productivity Spillovers fromForeign Direct Investment in China?” with Galina Hale.Pacific Economic Review. 2011, 16(2), pp. 135-153.
· “Does the RightsHypothesis Apply to China?” with Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, November, 53(4), Lead Article.
· “Foreign Direct Investment and Incentives to Innovate and Imitate” with Irene Brambilla and Galina Hale. Scandinavian Journal ofEconomics, 2009, December, 111(4), pp.835-861.
· “The Transformation of Collectively Owned Enterprises and its Outcomes inChina,2001-2005” with Jun Xia and Shaomin Li. World Development, 2009, October, 37(10), pp. 1651-1662.
· “CEO Turnover, FirmPerformance, and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from Micro Data,”with Takao Kato. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34, pp. 796-817.
· “Executive Turnover and Firm Performance in China,”with Takao Kato. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2006, 96(2), 363-367.
· “ExecutiveCompensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai andShenzhen Stock Exchanges,” with Takao Kato. EconomicDevelopment and Cultural Change,2006, 54(4), pp. 945-983.
· “Salaries, Plea Rates,and the Career Objectives of Federal Prosecutors,” with Richard Boylan. Journal of Law and Economics, 2005, 48(2): pp. 627-651.
· “A Classroom Exercise:Voting by Ballots and Feet,” with Roger Hewett, Charles A. Holt, Georgia Kosmopoulou, Christine Kymn, ShabnamMousavi, and Sudipta Sarangi. SouthernEconomic Journal, 2005, 72(1), pp. 253-263.
· “Measuring PublicCorruption in the American States: A Survey of State House Reporters,” with Richard Boylan.State Policy and PoliticsQuarterly, 2003, 3(4), pp.420-438.
· “Firm Size andMonitoring,” with Richard Boylan. EconomicsBulletin, 2003, 4(34), pp.1-5.
JournalPublications (in Chinese)
· “Howdo Private Entrepreneurs’ Social Relational Capital Affect R&D Investment,”with Shuangying Chen and Runtian Jing. ManagementWorld (Guanli Shijie, in Chinese), 2010, January, pp. 88-98.
· “Ownership Type and Chinese Private Firms’ Financing Costs” with YinjunLiu and Runtian Jing. Management Review(Guanli Pinglun, in Chinese), 2009,21(9), pp. 77-85.
OtherRefereed Publications
· “Foreign Direct Investment in China: Winners and Losers” with Galina Hale. WorldScientific Publishing Co., 2012.
· “If You Try, You’ll Get By: Chinese Private Firms’ Efficiency Gains fromOvercoming Financial Constraints,” with Galina Hale, Chapter 8 in The Evolving Role of China in Global Economy,2012, pp. 313-341, edited by Yin-Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan, The MIT Press.
· “What are Sources of Financing for Chinese Firms,” with Galina Hale, Chapter13 in The Evolving Role of Asia in GlobalFinance, 2011, pp. 313-341, edited by Yin-Wong Cheung, Vakas Kakkar, andGuonan Ma, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. (An earlier version appears in theHKIMR Working Paper Series.)
· “Industrial Clusters and Firm Financing in China,” with Xiaobo Zhang(presented at the Association of Comparative Economics Society, January 2009), International Food Policy Research InstituteDiscussion Papers (IFPRI DP).
· “Where to Find Positive Productivity Spilloversfrom FDI in China: Disaggregated Analysis,” with Galina Hale, Hirotaka, Miura,and Theodore Moran, HKIMR Working Paper Series.
· “Negative Effects ofPersonal Bankruptcy on Home Owners: Lost Homes and Reduced Credit Access.” Conference Proceedings of the FederalReserve System’s 2005 Research Conference “Promises and Pitfalls.” 2005.
Papersunder Review
· “Labor Regulation, Human Capital, and Economic Complexity: Using MicroData to Explain the China-India Gap,” with Wei Li and Lixin Colin Xu.
· “Where to Find Positive Productivity Spilloversfrom FDI in China: Dynamics, Vertical Linkages, Sources of Foreign Capital, andIndustrial Specifics,” with Galina Hale and Theodore Moran
· “Institutional Spillover Effects of FDI in China,”with Jing Zhang
· “Industrial Diversification in China,” with Justin Yifu Lin and XiaoboZhang
· “基于空间计量模型的我国县级ZF间税收竞争的实证分析”,与朱艳丽、蔡伟贤、李少民合作。
WorkingPapers
· “Chinese Courts in Transition: Evolution, Causes, and Effects”
· “Leadership Stability and Real Estate Development in China,” with SebastianGaliani, Nan Gao & Colin Xu
· “Why Don't Chinese Private Entrepreneurs Donate More?” with Jin Yang
· “FDI Spillover Effects in Republican Era China,” with Li Yang
· “Legal Local Protectionism in China: An Examination of Chinese SupremeCourt IP Cases,” with Jun Wang
· “产业集群对企业履约和融资环境的影响”,与张晶、张晓波合作。
· “省级行政区划造成的文化分割会影响区域经济吗?”,与高翔合作。
Researchin Progress
· “A Patent Bubble in China?” with Jun Wang & Xiang Gao
· “Economic Autonomy and City Growth in China,” with Yunsen Li
· “Tax Competition among Chinese Counties,” with Weixian Cai and Yanli Zhu
· “Regional Competition in Institutions,” with Yanli Zhu
· “Colonial History and FDI in China,” with Li Yang
· “区域隶属关系变动与经济绩效的关系—来自中国县级行政单位的证据”,与翁明明合作。
ConferencePresentations
· First Annual International Workshop on the Economic Analysis ofInstitutions in Xiamen, May 2013, “Leadership Stability and Real EstateDevelopment in China”
· China Law and Economics Forum Annual Meeting, May 2012, “Does the RightsHypothesis Apply to China?”
· Chinese Institutional Economics Society Annual Meeting, October 2011, “FDIin China, Institutional Borrowing, and Bridging Chinese Institutional Studiesand Mainstream Economics”
· American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, May 2011, “ChineseCourts in Transition: Evolution, Causes, and Effects”
· Association of Comparative Economics Society Meeting, January 2011,“Chinese Courts in Transition: Evolution, Causes, and Effects”
· Conference on Chinese Economy, Fu Dan University, December 2010, “VAT Export Tax Rebates and Chinese Exports”
· National Bureau ofEconomic Research Working Group on China Meeting, October 2010
· Conference on theIndustrial Structure of Production (organized by Ronald Coase and Ning Chen),Chicago, July 2010.
· China Economics SummerInstitute, Tsinghua University, China, July2010
· Chinese Economist SocietyAnnual Meeting, Xiamen, China, June 2010
· National Bureau ofEconomic Research Working Group on China Meeting, October 2009
· Panelist on the Second Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium on PropertyRights, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization,April-May 2009
· Association of Comparative Economics Society, January 2009, “IndustrialClustering and Firm Financing”
· National Bureau ofEconomic Research Working Group on China Meeting, October 2008, “Foreign Direct Investment and Incentives to Innovate and Imitate”
· American Social ScienceAlliance Annual Meeting, January 2008, “Patterns of China’s Industrialization”
· National Bureau ofEconomic Research Workshop on the Chinese Economy, October 2007, “Labor MarketImperfections and the Effects of FDI Presence in China”
· Chinese Economist SocietyAnnual Meeting, Changsha, China, July 2007, “Does the Rights HypothesisApply to China?”
· American Social Science Alliance Annual Meeting,January 2007, “Is There Evidence of FDISpillover on Chinese Firms’ Productivity?”
· Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economicsand Stanford Centerfor Global Business and Economy conference “Emerging market firms' behavior:insights for finance and macroeconomics”, June 2006, “Firm Ownership and FDI Spillovers in China”
· American Economic AssociationAnnual Meeting, January 2006, “CEO Turnover, Firm Performance, and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from Micro Data”
· The InauguralAsia-Pacific Corporate Governance Conference, Hong Kong, August 2005, “CEOTurnover, Firm Performance, and EnterpriseReform in China: Evidence from Micro Data”
· Federal Reserve System’s Research Conference, “Promises & Pitfalls:As Consumer Finance Options Multiply, Who is Being Served and at What Cost?”,April 2005, “Negative Effects of Bankruptcy for Home Owners: Reduced Access toCredit and Lost Option Value”
· American EconomicAssociation Annual Meeting, January 2005, “Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai andShenzhen Stock Exchanges”
· Association of PublicEconomic Theory Annual Meeting, Beijing, China, August 2004, “Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and State Ownership in China”
· CeMENT: CSWEP NationalWorkshop at the Annual Convention of Applied Social Science Associations,January 2004, “Negative Effects ofBankruptcy for Home Owners: Reduced Access to Credit and Lost Option Value”
· Southern EconomicAssociation Annual Meeting, November 2003, “Personal Bankruptcy and HomeOwnership”
· Public Choice SocietyAnnual Meeting, March 2002, “Option Price and Option Value in ExplainingPersonal Bankruptcy Filing”
· The 8th World Congress ofthe Econometric Society, August 2000, “Size, Monitoring and Plea Rate: AnExamination of United StatesAttorneys”
· Western Economic AssociationAnnual Meeting, June 2000, “Size, Monitoring and Plea Rate: An Examination of United StatesAttorneys”
· Public Choice SocietyAnnual Meeting, March 2000, “Size, Monitoring and Plea Rate: An Examination of United StatesAttorneys”
Conferences and SessionsOrganized
· First Annual International Workshop on the Economic Analysis ofInstitutions in Xiamen, May 2013
· Session on “Law andDevelopment in China and Russia” (withWilliam Pyle), Associationof Comparative Economic Society Annual Meeting, January2011
· Session on “IndustrialClusters and Economic Development,” Association of Comparative Economic SocietyAnnual Meeting, January 2009
· Session on “EconomicAnalysis of Criminal Behavior and Prosecution,” Western Economic AssociationAnnual Meeting, June 2000
ConferenceSessions Proposed
· Session on “Legal Reformsand Institutional Innovations in China,” American EconomicAssociation Annual Meeting, January 2008
ConferencesAttended
· The Law Institute for Economists, July 2012
· Brookings Trade Forum:Global Labor Markets? May 2007
· IMF Conference on China, April2007
· NBER Working Group on China Meeting,October 2006
· Stanford Center on InternationalDevelopment Conference on Economic Challenges in Asia,June 2006
· Stanford Center on International Development Conference on Trade Liberalization and its Consequences, May 2006
· Stanford Center on InternationalDevelopment Conference on China,September 2005
· “Towards a New Paradigmfor Developing Western China: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Developmentand Globalization,” Inaugural Conference of the Consortium for Western ChinaDevelopment Studies, Chengdu, Sichuan, China,June 2004
· NBER UniversitiesResearch Conference, December 2002
· NFS Workshop on ClassroomExperiments, May 2002
SeminarPresentations
· National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China, April2013
· Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, April 2012
· University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, April2012
· School of Economics, Peking University, May 2011
· Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, February 2011
· School of Management and Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University,December 2010
· Wang Yanan Institute for Economic Study (WISE), Xiamen University,December 2010
· Social Science Division Brown Bag Series, Colgate University, September2010, March 2005
· Research Institute ofEconomics & Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, May 2010, March 2010
· School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, March 2010, December2009
· School of Economics &Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University,March 2010
· China Center of Economic Research(CCER), Peking University, November 2009
· School of Economics andManagement, Tsinghua University, November 2009
· Department of Economics, Syracuse University, September2008
· School of Economics and Management, University of Electronic Science andTechnology of China,July 2008
· Center for Pacific BasinStudies, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, March 2007
· Department of Economics, Universityof California at Santa Cruz, May 2006
· Hoover Institution, Stanford University,April 2006
· Department ofAgricultural and Resource Economics, Universityof California, Davis, April 2005
· Department of Economics, Wesleyan University, October 2004
· Department of Economics, Colgate University, September 2006, April 2005, October2003, January 2001
· Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, March 2001
· Department of Economics, California StateUniversity, Fullerton, January 2001
· Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, January 2001
· Department of Economics,Finance and Legal Studies, Culverhouse Collegeof Commerce, University of Alabama,December 2000
· Ada Harrison Fund Speaker Series, Carleton College, February 2000
· Law and EconomicsSeminar, School of Law, Washington University, October 1999
RefereeReports
· China Economic Review, 2012, 2011, 2010,2009, 2008
· Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
· Development Policy Review, 2013
· Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 2006
· Economics and Politics, 2013, 2010
· Economics of Transition, 2006, 2005
· Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2007
· India Journal of Economics andBusiness, 2005
· International Review of Financial Analysis, 2013
· Journal of Applied Economics, 2010
· Journal of Asian Economics, 2010
· Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013
· Journal of Comparative Economics,2012, 2011, 2006
· Journal of Corporate Finance, 2013
· Journal of Development Economics,2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
· Journal of Development Studies,2007
· Journal of Economics and Business, 2011
· Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2011
· Journal of Economic Surveys, 2011
· Journal of International Economics, 2009
· Journal of Institutional Economics, 2013
· Journal of Management Sciences in China(guanli kexuexuebao, in Chinese), 2003
· Journal of Public Economic Theory,1999
· Journal of Urban Economics, 2013
· National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic SciencesGrant Application Evaluation Report,2004,2002
· National Science Foundation of China/ResearchGrants Council of Hong Kong, 2011, 2008
· Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010
· Public Choice, 2000
· Research Council of Canada Division of Social Sciences and HumanitiesGrant Application Assessment Report,2003
· Review of Economics and Statistics,2011, 2008, 2007
· Singapore Economic Review, 2010
· Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 2004
· State Policy and Politics Quarterly, 2006
· World Development, 2013