Publications

The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-stage Field Experiment in Malawi By Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Thomas Taek Sung KIM The paper studies how career and wage incentives affect labor productivity through self-selection and incentive effect channels using a two-stage field experiment in Malawi.

• Career incentives
• Wage incentives
• Labor productivity

How does intergenerational investment respond to changes in the marriage market? Evidence from China By Li Han, Xinzheng Shi

• Premarital investment
• Intrahousehold bargaining
• Intergenerational investment
• Hukou
• Bequest
• Urban China

Competitive Information Disclosure by Multiple Senders By Pak Hung Au, Keiichi Kawai

• Information transmission
• Bayesian persuasion
• Multiple senders

Fluctuation and Reform: A Tale of Two RMB Markets By Juanyi Xu, Yousha Liang, Kang Shi, Lisheng Wang

• Renminbi markets
• CNH and CNY exchange rate
• Pricing differential
• Volatility
• Currency market reform
• GARCH-type model

Competitive Disclosure of Correlated Information By Pak Hung Au, Keiichi Kawai

• Bayesian persuasion
• Multiple senders
• Correlated information
• Disclosure

The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital in China By Joshua Graff Zivin, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang, Tong Liu

• Cognitive performance
• Human capital
• Agricultural fire
• Air pollution

An Empirical Study of Scoring Auctions and Quality Manipulation Corruption By Yangguang Huang

• Scoring auction
• Procurement
• Quality manipulation
• Test for corruption

The Borrowing Puzzle: Why Do Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, China Borrow Rather than Dissave? By Wooyoung Lim, Sujata Visaria (On Leave)

• Migrants
• Savings
• Loans
• Coholding

Procurement Auctions under Quality Manipulation Corruption By Yangguang Huang, Jijun Xia

• Scoring auction
• Quality manipulation
• Corruption
• Procurement

Place-Based Policies, Creation, and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from China’s Economic Zone Program By Jin Wang, Yi Lu, Lianming Zhu

• Place-based policy
• Economic zone program

Corporate Disclosure as a Tacit Coordination Mechanism: Evidence from Cartel Enforcement Regulations By Alminas Žaldokas, Thomas Bourveau, Guoman She

• Financial disclosure
• Antitrust enforcement
• Tacit coordination

Straw Burning, PM2.5, and Death: Evidence from China By Maigeng Zhou, Guojun He, Tong Liu

• Air pollution
• Straw burning
• Stubble burning
• Mortality
• Straw recycling