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Nov 15, 2025 If Bitcoin is the reference point for the entire crypto market, does salience in returns and trading volumes help explain why some coins underperform? Yes, in our latest working paper.
Oct 20, 2025 In China’s bank-based system, “asset growth” mixes liquidity and credit constraints. We show that a new PPE-based investment factor fixes this: better pricing power, clearer link to collateral risk.
Oct 05, 2025 Are existing $\ell_1$-based methods providing a fair benchmark to evaluate the trade-off between weak–dense and sparse–strong factor views in asset pricing? We provide new insights.
Aug 12, 2025 Could firms’ liquidity choices, namely the balance between internal cash holdings and external finance, determine when sunspot traps arise? Our paper shows that they do.
Jul 18, 2025 We are revising a Review of Economic Dynamics R&R, co-authored with my PhD student at WHU, on how consumption taxes influence the duration of the zero lower bound.
Jun 01, 2025 New paper Can sustainability-linked lending reconcile environmental and financial motives? (with A. George, J. Huang, T. Xie) accepted at International Review of Financial Analysis.
Apr 10, 2025 New paper Optimizing green subsidy policies for decarbonization in Southeast Asia’s real estate sector (with H. Liu et al.) accepted at Energy Economics.
Feb 15, 2025 New paper The real cost channel and the Phillips Curve for China (with J. Yao and H. Wang) accepted at Economics Letters.
Dec 20, 2024 Awarded NSFC General Program (2025–2027) as PI, on the effectiveness of monetary policy with the real cost channel in China.
Sep 05, 2024 Received the Best Paper Award at the 21st Annual Conference of China Finance, and named Outstanding Young Talent under the Wuhan Talent Plan.