Publications

.Laboratories of Democracy: Policy Experimentation under Decentralization (with Christopher Li) AEJ: Micro Vol.11, Issue 3, August 2019 

​Moral Hazard in Teams with Subjective Evaluations  The RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 52, Issue 1, Spring 2021

Variations in Governmental Responses to and the Diffusion of COVID-19: The Role of Political Decentralization ​(with Jiasheng Li and Chuanchuan Zhang)  Frontier of Economics in China Vol. 16, Issue 4, December 2021

Which Networks Permit Stable Allocations? A Theory of Network-based Comparisons (with Yiqing Xing) Theoretical Economics Vol. 17, Issue 4, November 2022 

A Screening Perspective on Experimental Zones (with Yiqing Xing) China Economic Review Vol. 77, Issue 1 , February 2023 

Informal Economy, State Capacity and Local Innovation (with Yiqing Xing) China Economic Quarterly Vol. 24, No. 3, May 2024 

Degree-Weighted Social Learning (with Xiao Han, Xin Tong, Yusheng Wu and Yiqing Xing) AEJ Micro Forthcoming

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Working Papers

Monoculture and Social Welfare of the Algorithmic Personalization Market under Competition Management Science R&R (with Jiawei Wang, Xing Hu and Xin Tong) 

Policy Vagueness and Reputational Concern (with Liuchun Deng and Yufeng Sun) Submitted 

Principal Competence and Organizational Candor: How Moderate Expertise Breeds Cover-Ups (with Yufeng Sun) Submitted

Governmental System and Economic Volatility under Democracy  (with Christopher Li, He Wang, Zitong Zhang  and Weifeng Zhong)

A Theory of Multiplexity: Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relationships (with Wei Huang and Yiqing Xing) 

Work in progress 

Communication with Discretion (with Jin Li and Yiqing Xing) 
Directed Social Learning (with Xiao Han, Yicheng Jin, Xin Tong and Yiqing Xing)