Publications

Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of Information from the National Health Screening Program in Korea By Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (on leave), Suejin A. Lee, Wilfredo Lim

• Health screening
• Information
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Hyperlipidemia
• Health behavior

Herd Immunity and a Vaccination Game: An Experimental Study By Wooyoung Lim, Pengfei Zhang This paper experimentally investigates people’s vaccination choices in the context of a nonlinear public good game.

• Vaccination
• Herd immunity

Anticollusion Enforcement: Justice for Consumers and Equity for Firms By Alminas Žaldokas, Sudipto Dasgupta

• Antitrust
• Anti-collusion

Marketing Communist Party membership in China By Li Han, Tao Li

• Political selection
• Party recruitment
• Authoritarian regimes
• China

Can conditional grants attract better students? Evidence from Chinese teachers’ colleges By Li Han, Jiaxin Xie

• Teacher selection
• Conditional transfer
• Teacher quality
• Financial aid
• College major choice

Anchored Differentiation: The Role of Temporal Distance in the Comparison and Evaluation of New Product Designs By Tian Heong Chan, HeeJung Jung

• Product design
• Design patents
• Innovation
• Optimal distinctiveness
• Mixed methods

Informational Complementarity By Song Lin, T. Tony Ke

• Search theory
• Complementarity
• Bandit problems
• Price competition

Two-Sided Price Discrimination by Media Platforms By Song Lin

• Price discrimination
• Two-sided market
• Platform design
• Media pricing
• Advertising
• Ad avoidance
• Targeting

The Effects of Fuel Standards on Air Pollution: Evidence from China By Jin Wang, Pei Li, Yi Lu

• Fuel standards
• Sulfur content
• Vehicle emissions
• Pollution
• China

Exchange Rates, Local Currency Pricing and International Tax Policies By Juanyi Xu, Sihao Chen, Michael B. Devereux, Kang Shi

• Local currency pricing
• International tax
• Exchange rate
• Policy coordination

Statistical Evidence on the Impact of Agricultural Straw Burning on Urban Air Quality in China By Alexis Kai Hon Lau, Guojun He, Tong Liu

• Crop residue
• Agriculture
• Air pollution
• Fire
• Particulate matter
• Fixed effects

SOE and Chinese Real Business Cycle By Juanyi Xu, Daoju Peng, Kang Shi, Yue Zhou

• State-owned Enterprise
• Real business cycle
• Vertical structure
• Financial friction
• Permanent shocks
• Bayesian estimation