Selected Publications:
- [1] "Hayek, Local Information, and Commanding Heights: Decentralizing State-Owned Enterprises in China", (with Zhangkai Huang, Lixing Li and Colin Xu), American Economic Reivew, 2017, 107(8): 2455–2478.
- [2]"Political Hierarchy and Regional Economic Development: Evidence from a Spatial Discontinuity in China", (with Junxue Jia and Xuan Liang), Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 194, 104352.
- [3] "Place-based Policies, State-Led Industrialisation, and Regional Development: Evidence from China’s Great Western Development Programme", (with Junxue Jia, Cong Qin, and Liyan Wang), European Economic Reivew,2020, 123,1-21.
- [4] "How Large is the Local Fiscal Multiplier? Evidence from Chinese Counties", (with Qingwang Guo and Chang Liu), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44: 343–352.
- [5]"Fiscal Decentralization and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from China", (with Jie Mao), Fiscal Studies, 2018, 39(1), 159-187.
- [6] "Taxation without Representation: Local Fiscal Response to Intergovernmental Transfers in China", (with Chang Liu), International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23:854–874.
- [7] "The Trade-off between Risk and Incentives in Fiscal Federalism: Evidence from China", (with Bingyang Lyu and Jingnan Zhang), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, forthcoming.