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WORKING PAPERS FROM 2025 PROGRAM

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Kaicheng Luo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*; Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago, Harris, School of Public Policy and NBER; David Y. Yang, Harvard University, Department of Economics and NBER
Laboratories of Autocracy: Landscape of Central-Local Dynamics in China’s Policy Universe
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Zining Wang, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University*; Se Yan, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Zhengkai Yang, Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Local Favoritism in State Formation
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Sam Engle, University of Exeter Business School; Chong Pang, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong; Anson Zhou, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong*
Asymmetric Fertility Elasticities
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Xiaomeng Cui, Jinan University*; Wangyang Lai, Peking University; Tao Lin, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
Industrial Water Pollution, Agricultural Productivity and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from China
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Tianshi Mu, Tsinghua University*; Xincheng Qiu, Peking University; Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland
Welfare Effects of Reducing Coal Production in China
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Philipp Boeing, Goethe University Frankfurt*; Loren Brandt, University of Toronto; Ruochen Dai, Central University of Finance and Economics; Kevin Lim, University of Toronto; Bettina Peters, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim
The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership
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Xiao Ma, Peking University; Yueyuan Ma, UC Santa Barbara; Hanyi Tao, ShanghaiTech University; Yiran Zhang, Fudan University*
The Impact of the Trade War: Divergence in Chinese and U.S. Innovations in the Post-Conflict Era

Yang Jiao, School of Economics, Singapore Management*; Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University, FISF and NBER
Financial Sanctions and Russian Trade
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Ruiqi (Rachel) Sun, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto*
Blocking the Giants: Theory and Evidence from the Great Firewall