Op-Eds
See my SCMP Op-Eds here
Currency Carry Trade by Trucks: The Curious Case of China’s Massive Imports from Itself
VoxChina, Apr 2022
Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China
VoxChina, Nov 2021
Coronavirus could leave the world an even more unequal place. That would be a real disaster
South China Morning Post, April 2020.
Production Networks and Firm Value: Evidence from the US-China Trade War
VoxChina, March 2020
Why the coronavirus is a ticking time bomb in the US: a costly and inefficient health care system
South China Morning Post, March 2020.
China’s return to work is good news for the economy – but it also risks unleashing a second wave of Covid-19 infections
South China Morning Post, March 2020.
What financial markets tell us about the US-China trade dispute (with Yi Huang, Chen Lin, and Sibo Liu)
VoxEU, Aug 2018 (also at World Economic Forum)
It’s No Accident That China’s Tycoons Are Bad Investors (with Chris Beddor)
Foreign Policy, Oct 2017
Rise of the Redback: Internationalizing the Chinese Renminbi (with David Landry)
The Diplomat, Sep 2017
Why China is Curbing Outbound Direct Investment (with Zixuan Huang)
Peterson Institute for International Economics, Aug 2017
Sanctions on North Korea pose little risk to Kim Jong Un’s regime (with David Landry)
Financial Times, Aug 2017
How did China Move Up the Global Value Chains? (with Hiau Looi Kee)
VoxChina, Aug 2017
How has China moved up the global value chains? (with Hiau Looi Kee)
World Bank's Let's Think Development, Jan 2016
[Chinese]
Investment Renaissance (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
IMF's Finance and Development, Dec 2015
[audio] [Arabic] [Chinese] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]
Trade and FDI liberalization help China move up the global value chains (with Hiau Looi Kee)
VoxEU, Dec 2015
China’s direct investment in Africa: Reality versus myth (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
Brookings Institution, Sep 2015
Chinese investment in Africa is more diverse and welcome than you think (with Wenjie Chen)
Quartz, Sep 2015
[the Conversation] [Chinese] [French] [German] [Japanese] [Portuguese]
How similar is Chinese investment in Africa to the West’s? (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
Brookings Institution, Aug 2015
The Dragon Soars: Micro Evidence on Chinese Outward Direct Investment (with Wenjie Chen)
VoxEU, Sep 2014
Review: WTO's World Trade Report 2013 "Factors Shaping the Future of World Trade"
World Trade Review, 13, Oct 2014, pp. 733-735.
See my SCMP Op-Eds here
Currency Carry Trade by Trucks: The Curious Case of China’s Massive Imports from Itself
VoxChina, Apr 2022
Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China
VoxChina, Nov 2021
Coronavirus could leave the world an even more unequal place. That would be a real disaster
South China Morning Post, April 2020.
Production Networks and Firm Value: Evidence from the US-China Trade War
VoxChina, March 2020
Why the coronavirus is a ticking time bomb in the US: a costly and inefficient health care system
South China Morning Post, March 2020.
China’s return to work is good news for the economy – but it also risks unleashing a second wave of Covid-19 infections
South China Morning Post, March 2020.
What financial markets tell us about the US-China trade dispute (with Yi Huang, Chen Lin, and Sibo Liu)
VoxEU, Aug 2018 (also at World Economic Forum)
It’s No Accident That China’s Tycoons Are Bad Investors (with Chris Beddor)
Foreign Policy, Oct 2017
Rise of the Redback: Internationalizing the Chinese Renminbi (with David Landry)
The Diplomat, Sep 2017
Why China is Curbing Outbound Direct Investment (with Zixuan Huang)
Peterson Institute for International Economics, Aug 2017
Sanctions on North Korea pose little risk to Kim Jong Un’s regime (with David Landry)
Financial Times, Aug 2017
How did China Move Up the Global Value Chains? (with Hiau Looi Kee)
VoxChina, Aug 2017
How has China moved up the global value chains? (with Hiau Looi Kee)
World Bank's Let's Think Development, Jan 2016
[Chinese]
Investment Renaissance (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
IMF's Finance and Development, Dec 2015
[audio] [Arabic] [Chinese] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]
Trade and FDI liberalization help China move up the global value chains (with Hiau Looi Kee)
VoxEU, Dec 2015
China’s direct investment in Africa: Reality versus myth (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
Brookings Institution, Sep 2015
Chinese investment in Africa is more diverse and welcome than you think (with Wenjie Chen)
Quartz, Sep 2015
[the Conversation] [Chinese] [French] [German] [Japanese] [Portuguese]
How similar is Chinese investment in Africa to the West’s? (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
Brookings Institution, Aug 2015
The Dragon Soars: Micro Evidence on Chinese Outward Direct Investment (with Wenjie Chen)
VoxEU, Sep 2014
Review: WTO's World Trade Report 2013 "Factors Shaping the Future of World Trade"
World Trade Review, 13, Oct 2014, pp. 733-735.
