Publications in refereed journals
1. “How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions” (with Kalina Manova), forthcoming, Journal of International Economics , Vol. 100 , 120-137, 2016
2. From One to Many Central Plans: Drug Advertising Inspections and Intra-National Protectionism in China “, (with Zheng Wang and Markus Eberhardt), Journal of Comparative Economics , forthcoming
3. “Payment Choice and International Trade: Firm Level Evidence from Developing Countries” , (with Andreas Hoefele, Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr) , Canadian Journal Economics , forthcoming 4. “The More the Better? Foreign ownership and Firm Performance in China” ( with David Greenaway and Alessandra Guariglia) , European Journal of Finance, Vol. 20(7–9), 681–702, 2014 5. “Openness, Managerial Incentives and Heterogeneous Firms” , Economic Theory , Vol. 51(1), 71-104 , 2012 6. “Regional Heterogeneity and China's International Trade: Sufficient Lumpiness or Not?” (with Meng Lu and Christ Milner) , Review of International Economics, Vol. 20(2), 415–429 , 2012
7. “Trade Partners, Products, and Firm Performance of China’s Exporter-Importers: Does Processing Trade Make a Difference?” (with Zheng Wang), The World Economy , 35(12), 1795–1824, 2012 8. “ Catching Up or Pulling Away : Intra-industry Trade, Productivity Gap and Heterogeneous Firms” (with Rod Falvey , David Greenaway), Open Economic Review, Volume 22, No. 1, pp. 17-38, 2011 9. “Can Production Subsidies Explain China's Export Performance? Evidence from Firm-Level Data”(with Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Gorg) , Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, Issue 4, pp. 863-891, 2009
10. “Overseas Transaction Costs and Firm Export Performance” (with Richard Kneller , Mauro Pisu), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 41, No. 2 , pp. 639-669 , 2008
11. “Market Size and Survival of Foreign-owned Firms ” (with Rod Falvey , David Greenaway ), Economic Record , Volume. 83 Issue s1 Page S1-S93, 2007
12. “ Firm-Level Interaction between Exporting and Productivity : Industry Specific Evidence” (with David Greenaway), Review of World Economics/ Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Volume.140 No.3 Page 376-393 , 2004
13. “ On the Economic Content of Factor Content: with Application to China’s Trade” ( with Christ Milner and Meng Lu), Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 17, Issue No. 3 , pp. 217-234, 2010
Work in Progress
1. “Export Diversification and Volatility at Firm level: Theory and Evidence” , with Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (Tilburg) , and Zheng Wang (Hull) , CESifo Working Paper No. 4916, Revise and Resubmission , European Economic Review
2. “Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion “ , with Markus Eberhardt (Nottingham) and Christian Helmers (Santa Clara) , GEP working paper 2011/16, Revise and Resubmission, Oxford Economic Papers
3. “Management Practices and International Trade: Firm Level Evidence” , with Nicolas Bloom (Stanford), Kalina Manova(Stanford), John Van Reenen (LSE) , in progress
4. “The Global Production Line Position of Chinese Firms” , with Kalina Manova (Stanford) and Davin Chor (Singapore Management University), in progress
5. “Price, Quantity, and Exchange Rate in Offshoring” , with Ben Li (Boston College) and Xufei Zhang (Middlesex) , submitted
Book Chapters and Book Reviews
1. “ Exporting and Productivity Growth : theory“(with Rod Falvey), in “ Globalisation and Productivity Growth“ Greenaway, D., Holger, H. and Kneller, R.,(eds) , Palgrave , 2006
2. Book Review : China and the Challenge of Economic Globalization: The Impact of WTO Membership by Hung-gay Fung, Changhong Pei and Kevin h. Zhang , The World Economy , Volume. 29 Issue 9 Page 1298-1299, September 2006
Teaching
Lectured Courses
International Trade (2nd Year, latest SET score 1.4)
International Trade Theory ( Msc, latest SET score 1.0)
PhD micro (PhD, 4 lectures )
Quantitative Economics II (1st Year, latest SET score 2.1)
PhD supervision (completed)
Tracy Meng Lu (2011) , Pan Wang (2012), Selvon Hazel (2013), Wang Hao (2014)
Other Professional Services
Referee: Journal of International Economics (5) , Journal of Development
Economics(6), European Economics Review (2), Canadian Journal of Economics (2),
Scandinavian Journal of Economics (1), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (1),
The World Economy (7), Economic Modeling (1), Journal of Africa Economy (1),
Economics Bulletin (3), Scottish Journal of Political Economy (1), Review of
International Economics (4), Journal of Regional Science (1)
Associate Editor, The World Economy. 2012 – present