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Associate Professor of Economics, College of Business, Clemson University (2024/Aug.-)

Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business, Clemson University (2018/Sep.-2024/Aug.)

Assistant Professor of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, the University of Hong Kong (2014/Aug. - 2018/Aug. and on-leave from 2018/Aug.-2019/May)

Research Interests

• Firm Organization and Management
• Multinational Firms and Foreign Direct Investment
• Firm-level responses to Trade Liberalization
• Uncertainty and Information Frictions
• Labor Markets and Macro

Research Publications

• “Information, Incentives and Multinational Firms,” Journal of International Economics, 2011 vol. 85(1): 147-158.
• “Management Quality and Firm Organization in Industry Equilibrium,” American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2017 vol. 9(4): 203-244.
• “Import Competition, Agency Problem and Aggregate Productivity: Theory and Evidence,” European Economic Review 2019 vol. 111: 421-442.
• “The Comparative Statics of Optimal Hierarchies” with Wing Suen, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2019 vol. 11(2): 1-25 (lead article).
• “Outward FDI and Domestic Input Distortions: Evidence from Chinese Firms” with Miaojie Yu and Wei Tian, Economic Journal 2019 vol. 129(624): 3025–3057.
• “Measuring Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty: Survey Evidence and the COVID-19 Pandemic” with Tatsuro Senga, and Hongyong Zhang, Japanese Economic Review 2021 vol. 72: 509-532 (special issue on Covid-19).
• “Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers and Productivity” with Claudia Steinwender, Journal of International Economics 2021/Nov. vol.133.
• “Learning and Information Transmission within Multinational Corporations” with Chang Sun and Hongyong Zhang, European Economic Review 2022/April vol.143.
• “Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation over the Firm’s Life Cycle” with Chang Sun, Tatsuro Senga, and Hongyong Zhang, Journal of Monetary Economics 2023/Nov. vol 140

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