Publications

  • "Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing" (with Aaditya Mattoo, The World Bank; Zhi Wang, UIBE; Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University), forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics.
  • "Free Trade Agreements and Consolidation of Democracy" (with Emanuel Ornelas, London School of Economics). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6(2): 29-70, April 2014.
  • "Tax Avoidance through Re-imports: The Case of Redundant Trade." Journal of Development Economics 104: 152-164, 2013.
  • "Evasion Behaviors of Exporters and Importers: Evidence from the U.S.-China Trade Data Discrepancy" (with Michael Ferrantino & Zhi Wang, USITC). Journal of International Economics 86(1): 141-157, 2012.
  • "The Location Decisions of Foreign Investors in China: Untangling the Effect of Wages Using A Control Function Approach." (with Mary Lovely & Jan Ondrich, Syracuse University). The Review of Economics & Statistics 92(1): 160-166, 2010.
  • "GATT/WTO Promotes Trade Strongly: Sample Selection Bias and Model Specification." Review of International Economics 17(3): 428-446, 2009.

Selected Presentations

  • CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Venice, Italy
  • Global Value Chains Conference, Peterson Institute of International Economics, Washington DC
  • China Summer Institute Conference, Tsinghua University
  • NBER Conference on the Chinese Economy, NBER, Cambridge, MA
  • WTO Economics Seminar, WTO, Geneva, Switzerland
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