Fields of Interest
- Public Economics, Taxation Theory, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights.
Working Papers
- Optimal Regional Insurance Provision: Do Federal Transfers Complement Local Debt? (with Liqun Liu and Guoqiang Tian) [slides] pdf (Sep 2019)
- Voting over Selfishly Optimal Income Tax Schedules with Tax-Driven Migrations. (with Guoqiang Tian) pdf (Jan 2020)
- Toward Longer Investment: Authority versus Inclusive Governance. (with Guoqiang Tian) [slides] pdf (May 2018)
Journal Publications
- Inter-Jurisdiction Migration and the Fiscal Policies of Local Governments. (with Dennis W. Jansen and Liqun Liu) Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
- Voting over Selfishly Optimal Tax Schedules: Can Pigouvian Tax Redistribute Income? Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming. [Online Appendix]
- Relativity, Mobility, and Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation in an Open Economy. (with Wenzheng Gao and Guoqiang Tian) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 172(C): 57-82, 2020.
- On the Efficiency of Wage-Setting Mechanisms with Search Frictions and Human Capital Investment. (with Guoqiang Tian) Annals of Economics and Finance, 21(1): 1-40, 2020.
- Optimal Interregional Redistribution and Local Borrowing Rules under Migration and Asymmetric Information. (with Liqun Liu and Guoqiang Tian) Journal of Public Economic Theory, 21(6): 1266-1285, 2019.
- Interregional Redistribution and Budget Institutions with Private Information on Intergenerational Externality. (with Liqun Liu and Guoqiang Tian) Review of Economic Design, 23(3-4): 127-154, 2019.
- Patent Protection in the South: Is there a Case for Nondiscrimination? The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 28(5): 580-602, 2019.
- Two Differential Games between Rent-Seeking Politicians and Capitalists: Implications for Economic Growth. (with Wenzheng Gao and Guoqiang Tian) International Game Theory Review, 21(3): 1850011, 2019.
- Intellectual Property Rights and R&D Subsidies: Are They Complementary Policies? Journal of Economics, 125(1): 27-49, 2018.
- Fiscal Policy under a Minimum-Time Objective. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 65(3): 293-314, 2018.
- IPR Protection vs. Innovation Subsidy: What is the Choice for the Emerging South? (with Kunrong Shen) The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 25(3): 426-451, 2016.
- Optimal Ramsey Taxation with Hidden Actions. Journal of Economic Studies, 42(6): 1112-1141, 2015.
- The Long-Run Behavior of Consumption and Wealth Dynamics in Complete Financial Market with Heterogeneous Investors. Journal of Applied Mathematics, 482314: 1-16, 2014.
- A Golden Formula in Neoclassical-Growth Models with Brownian-Motion Shocks. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 61(2): 211-228, 2014.
- Cooperative Economic Growth. Economic Modelling, 33(C): 407-415, 2013.
- A Case Against Zero Capital-Income Taxation. (with Kunrong Shen and Ruihua Ma) Frontiers of Economics in China, 8(1): 64-90, 2013.
- Stochastic Versions of Turnpike Theorems in the Sense of Uniform Topology. Annals of Economics and Finance, 13(2): 389-431, 2012.