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Corruption and rent-seeking create societal vulnerabilities, but their costs may be latent and hard to observe in the absence of a negative shock --- whether natural disaster or financial calamity.
Awards:
- The Chinese Economists' Society Gregory Chow Best Paper Award - Rosenstein-Rodan Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper on Development Economics Presentations (selected):
- ASSA 2022 (poster, scheduled) - NEUDC 2021 (Nov 2021) - Econometric Society China Meeting (Jul 2021) - NBER Political Economy Program Meeting (Oct 2020) |
Publications
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Rebel on the Grand Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650-1911
(with Shuo Chen), American Economic Review, (2022) 112 (5): 1555-90. |
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The disruption of access to an established trade route contributed to the chronic political and social instability that afflicted nineteenth-century North China.
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Working Papers
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SOE and Soft Incentive Constraints in State Banking
(with Raymond Fisman, Hui Lin, and Yongxiang Wang) |
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SOE lending may thus be beneficial for state bank managers, who lend to delinquent state enterprises to meet targets, which in turn may exacerbate SOEs' soft budget constraints.
Status: - NBER Working Paper No.24961 - Accepted by American Economic Journal: Economic Policy |
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Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
(with Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn) |
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Traditional herding practices generated a value system conducive to revenge-taking and violence. This functional psychology has persisted until today and plays a role in shaping conflict across the globe.
Status:
- NBER Working Paper No. 29250 - Submitted Presentations:
- ASSA 2022 (coauthor-presenting) |