Research

Publication in Economics

Does Amazon Exercise its Market Power? Evidence from Toys R Us, with Imke Reimers and Benjamin R. Shiller, Journal of Law and Economics, 2023 (link)
Openness and Coronavirus-related Xenophobia: The Roles of Trade and Migration, with Jun He, Ming He, Wen Zhou and Xuanwen Nie, PLOS ONE, 2021 (link)
A Theory of Pre-filing Settlement and Patent Assertion Entities, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020 (link)
Beyond Asset Ownership: Employment and Asset-less Firms in a Property-Rights Theory of the Firm, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016 (link)

Discrimination and Social Exclusion in the outbreak of COVID-19, with Jun He, Wen Zhou, Xuanhua Nie, Ming He, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Accuracy and Timeliness of Knowledge Dissemination on COVID-19 among People in Rural and Remote Regions of China at the Early Stage of Outbreak, with Wen Zhou, Xuanhua Nie, Taoketaohu Wuri, Jin-Hai Piao, Dunshan Chen, Hui Gao, Jianmin Liu, Kyedrub Tubden, Ming He, Jun He, Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 (link)

Classroom Peer Effects and Teachers: Evidence from Quasi-random Assignment in a Chinese Middle School, with Steven L. Ross, Working paper 2017-14, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, the University of Chicago, 2017

Coordination, Conflict and Escalation in Organizations
Disintermediation in the Creative Markets, with Christian Peukert and Imke Reimers
The Heterogeneous Price Effects from the Exit of Brick-and-Mortar Retail, with Imke Reimers and Benjamin R. Shiller
Longer Lines, Higher Margins: Theory and Evidence on Location-based Competition, with Xiaoou Liu and Chen Zhu
Featured in the News: from the Attention Aura to Competing Complements, with Katherine Ennis (Bates class of 2020)
The Long-Term Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Innovation in the United States, with Olivia McCulloch (Bates College, class of 2021)
The Impact of Legal Outsourcing on Companies’ H-1B Sponsorship, with Jiayang (Portia) Chen (Bates College, class of 2020)
How to Train Your Dragon Children: Cultural Belief and Learning Achievement