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Main Journal Articles


Currency Carry Trade by Trucks: The  Curious Case of China's Massive Imports from Itself (Jan 2022)
Review of Finance, forthcoming (with Xuepeng Liu, Zhi Wang, and Shang-Jin Wei) 
  • NBER Paper | VoxChina​
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Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China 
Journal of International Economics,  133, Nov 2021, 103518. 
(with Yifan Zhang)
  • slides | VoxChina
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​Domestic Segment of Global Value Chains in China under State Capitalism 
Journal of Comparative Economics, 48, Dec 2020, pp. 797–821. (with Fei Wang and Zhi Wang)
A methodology piece is circulated under the title Extending the Input-Output Table Based on Firm-level Data
  • appendix ​
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​Why is China Investing in Africa? Evidence from the Firm Level 
World Bank Economic Review, 32(3), Oct 2018, pp. 610–632 (with Wenjie Chen and David Dollar)
  • Brookings Blog | IMF Finance & Development | Quartz | Global Trade Magazine | Emerging Markets News | Knowledge@Wharton | Strategy + Business | Slate Africa | Accounting and Business | Audio | Audio2

Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Firm Evidence from China 
American Economic Review, 106(6), June 2016, pp. 1402-1436. (with Hiau Looi Kee)
  • final working paper (with appendix) | slides | voxdev blog | voxeu blog | World Bank's blog | Bloomberg
  • Data: click here to download the sector-level data used in this paper
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Learning to Export from Neighbors
Journal of International Economics, 94(1), Sep 2014, pp. 67-84. (with Ana Fernandes)
  • slides | final working paper | appendix | summary by Fed Reserve - Dallas

Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
Journal of International Economics, 92(2), March 2014, pp. 349–362. (with Yue Ma and Yifan Zhang)
  • slides | final version - working paper | appendix
  • Data: click here to download the product-level factor intensity data used in this paper​

International Politics and Import Diversification
Journal of Law and Economics, 56(4), Nov 2013, pp. 1091-1121. (with Sergei Mityakov and Kevin Tsui)
  • Companion Paper: Geopolitics, Global Patterns of Oil Trade, and China’s Oil Security Quest

Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China
Journal of Development Economics, 99(2), Nov 2012, pp. 396–414. (with Ana Fernandes)
  • slides | LSE CEP Working Paper Version

Labor Market Institutions, Firm-specific Skills, and Trade Patterns
Journal of International Economics, 87(2), July 2012, pp. 337–351. 
  • slides | appendix
  • Data: click here to download the sector-level measures of firm and sector specificity of skills​​

Refereed Special Issues

​Excessive Entry and Exit in Export Markets 
Journal of Japanese and International Economies, Sep 2019, Special Issue: Globalization and Welfare Impacts of International Trade (with Hiro Kasahara)
  • ​NBER working paper

Are Foreign Firms Favored in China? Firm-level Evidence on the Collection of Value Added Tax​
Journal of International Business Policy, June 2018, Inaugural Issue (with Yasheng Huang)​

​​The Dragon is Flying West: Micro-level Evidence of Chinese Outward Direct Investment
Asian Development Review, Annual Research Conference Volume, 31(2), Sep 2014, pp. 109-140. (with Wenjie Chen)
  • Reprinted in China and the Global Economy, 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • [appendix] [blog post:The Dragon Soars: Micro Evidence on Chinese Outward Direct Investment]

​Exchange Rates and the Margins of Trade: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
CESIfo Economic Studies, Symposium on China's Trade Performance, 58(4), Dec 2012, pp. 671-702. (with Yifan Zhang)
  • slides​​​

​​FDI Policies in China and India: Evidence from Firm Surveys ​(with Yasheng Huang)
World Economy, Special Issue: India, 35(1), 2012, pp. 91-105.

Book Chapters

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​Assessing Asia – Sub-Saharan Africa Global Value Chain Linkages
in Africa in the New Trade Environment: Market Access in Troubled Times, World Bank (Edited by A. Zeufack) 2021

Supply chain linkages and financial markets: Evaluating the costs of the US-China trade war  (with Yi Huang, Chen Lin, and Sibo Liu)
in Trade War: The Clash of Economic Systems Endangering Global Prosperity, CEPR Ebook, May 2019
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Trade Patterns and Dynamics of Processing Exporters: Evidence from China 
in New Development in Global Sourcing, 2018, MIT Press (with Ana Fernandes)
  • an abridged version is published as ​Scale, Scope, and Trade Dynamics of Export Processing Plants , Economics Letters, 133, August 2015, pp. 68-72. (with Ana Fernandes)
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