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• Dirty air and green investments: The impact of pollution information on portfolio allocations
  Journal of Financial Economics, 2026
• The undoing of economic sanctions: Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine conflict
  Journal of Public Economics, 2025
• The costs and benefits of clan culture: elite control versus cooperation in China
  The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 2025
• Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
  Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024
• Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution? Cross-Country Evidence
  Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024
• Physician Altruism and Spending, Hospital Admissions, and Emergency Department Visits
  JAMA Health Forum, 2024
• Universalism and Political Representation: Evidence from the Field
  American Economic Review Insights, 2024
• SOEs and Soft Incentive Constraints in State Bank Lending
  American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2023
• The Impact of Socioeconomic and Cultural Differences on Online Trade
  Management Science, 2023
• The distributional preferences of Americans, 2013–2016
  Experimental Economics, 2023
• Superstition and Risk Taking: Evidence from “Zodiac Year” Beliefs in China
  Management Science, 2022
• Reference points and redistributive preferences: Experimental evidence
  Journal of Public Economics, 2022
• Experimental evidence of physician social preferences
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
• Political Beta
  Review of Finance, 2022
• Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021
• Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors
  American Economic Journal Applied Economics, 2021
• What motivates non-democratic leadership: Evidence from COVID-19 reopenings in China
  Journal of Public Economics, 2021
• Transparency, Contracting Frictions, and Trade: Evidence across Firms
  The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 2021
• Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World
  The Economic Journal, 2021
• Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption: Evidence from Two Countries
  The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 2021
• Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
  American Economic Review, 2020
• Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elite
  American Economic Review, 2020
• Do Americans want to tax wealth? Evidence from online surveys
  Journal of Public Economics, 2020
• Experience of Communal Conflicts and Intergroup Lending
  Journal of Political Economy, 2020
• Distributional Preferences in Larger Groups: Keeping up with the Joneses and Keeping Track of the Tails
  Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020
• Air pollution, affect, and forecasting bias: Evidence from Chinese financial analysts
  Journal of Financial Economics, 2019
• Peer Effects in Legislative Voting
  American Economic Journal Applied Economics, 2019
• An Event Long-Short Index: Theory and Applications
  American Economic Review Insights, 2019
• Does Cheap Talk Affect Market Outcomes? Evidence from eBay
  American Economic Journal Applied Economics, 2019
• Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science
  Journal of Political Economy, 2018
• Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
  American Economic Review, 2017
• Human Capital and the Supply of Religion
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016
• The distributional preferences of an elite
  Science, 2015
• How did distributional preferences change during the Great Recession?
  Journal of Public Economics, 2015
• Labor Supply of Politicians
  Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015
• Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification
  American Economic Journal Microeconomics, 2015
• The Mortality Cost of Political Connections
  The Review of Economic Studies, 2015
• Political connections and commerce—a global perspective
  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2015
• The Private Returns to Public Office
  Journal of Political Economy, 2014
• Nationalism and Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
  Review of Financial Studies, 2014
• Corruption in Chinese Privatizations
  The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 2014
• Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?
  Management Science, 2013
• Contrast Effects in Sequential Decisions: Evidence from Speed Dating
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013
• The Unsafe Side of Chinese Crony Capitalism
  Harvard business review, 2013
• Charity as a Substitute for Reputation: Evidence from an Online Marketplace
  The Review of Economic Studies, 2012
• Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney
  The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012
• Profiting from government stakes in a command economy: Evidence from Chinese asset sales
  Journal of Financial Economics, 2010
• Does intellectual property rights reform spur industrial development?
  Journal of International Economics, 2010
• Trading Favors within Chinese Business Groups
  American Economic Review, 2010
• Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization
  Journal of Applied Economics, 2010
• Gender Differences in Beliefs on the Returns to Effort: Evidence from the World Values Survey
  The Journal of Human Resources, 2009
• Racial Preferences in Dating
  The Review of Economic Studies, 2008
• Testing limits to policy reversal: Evidence from Indian privatizations☆
  Journal of Financial Economics, 2008
• Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
  Journal of Political Economy, 2007
• Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty
  American Economic Review, 2007
• Financial Dependence and Growth Revisited
  Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007
• Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New Tool Kit
  American Economic Review, 2007
• The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques
  American Economic Journal Applied Economics, 2007
• Individual Preferences for Giving
  American Economic Review, 2007
• Local Company Politics: A Proposal
  Capitalism and Society, 2007
• Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level evidence
  Journal of Development Economics, 2006
• Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U. S. Firm-Level Panel Data
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006
• Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence From a Speed Dating Experiment
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006
• Bargaining for Bribes: The Role of Institutions
  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2006
• The Effect of Foreign Competition on Forecasting Bias
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006
• Precautionary savings and the governance of nonprofit organizations
  Journal of Public Economics, 2005
• Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005
• Facilitating Development: The Role of Business Groups
  World Development, 2004
• Does Competition Encourage Credit Provision? Evidence from African Trade Credit Relationships
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004
• Financial Development and Intersectoral Allocation: A New Approach
  The Journal of Finance, 2004
• Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from “Missing Imports” in China
  Journal of Political Economy, 2004
• Trade Credit, Financial Intermediary Development, and Industry Growth
  The Journal of Finance, 2003
• Ethnic Ties and the Provision of Credit: Relationship-Level Evidence from African Firms
  Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2003
• The Role of Nonprofit Endowments
  Book chapter, 2003
• Decentralization and corruption: evidence across countries
  Journal of Public Economics, 2002
• Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence from U.S. Federal Transfer Programs
  Public Choice, 2002
• Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?
  The Journal of Law and Economics, 2002
• Estimating the Value of Political Connections
  American Economic Review, 2001
• Are women really the “fairer” sex? Corruption and women in government
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2001
• Trade Credit and Productive Efficiency in Developing Countries
  World Development, 2001
• Is trust a historical residue? Information flows and trust levels
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1999
• Cultural Influences on Symptom Presentation in Childhood
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1999