SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Heat and Observed Economic Activity in the Rich Urban Tropics,” (with E. Fesselmeyer, H. Liu, and R. Simorangkir) Economic Journal, forthcoming

“Willingness to Fight on: Environmental Quality in Dynamic Contests,” (with H. Liu and J. Lu) RAND Journal of Economics, 54(2), (2023) pp. 189-239

“Adversity-Hope Hypothesis: Air Pollution Raises Daily Lottery Demand in China,” (with S. H. Chew and H. Liu) Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 62, (2021) pp. 247-280

“Declining Discount Rates in Singapore’s Market for Privately Developed Apartments,” (with E. Fesselmeyer and H. Liu) Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(2), (2021) pp. 330-350

“Air Pollution as a Determinant of Food Delivery and Related Plastic Waste,” (with J. Chu and H. Liu) Nature Human Behaviour, 5, (2020) pp. 212-220

“Local Pollution as a Determinant of Residential Electricity Demand,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 7(5), (2020) pp. 837-872. (This paper won the JAERE Best Paper Award for 2020, awarded by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists)

“Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China,” (with J. He and H. Liu) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(1), (2019) pp. 173-201

“Electrical Appliances Moderate Households’ Water Demand Response to Heat,” Nature Communications, 9(5408), (2018) pp.1-14

“Severe Air Pollution and Child Absences When Schools and Parents Respond,” (with H. Liu) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92, (2018) pp. 300-330

“External Effects of Diesel Trucks Circulating Inside the São Paulo Megacity,” (with J. He and N. Gouveia) Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(3), (2018) pp. 947-989

“Flexible Fuel Vehicles, Less Flexible Minded Consumers: Price Information Experiments at the Pump,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92, (2018) pp. 194-221

“Reduced Ultrafine Particle Levels in São Paulo’s Atmosphere During Shifts from Gasoline to Ethanol Use,” (with J. Brito, P. Artaxo and F. M. Geiger) Nature Communications, 8(77), (2017) pp. 1-14

“Ethanol-Blended Gasoline Policy and Ozone Pollution in São Paulo,” (with Y. Wang) Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 4(3), (2017) pp.731-794

"The Rise of Fringe Competitors In the Wake of an Emerging Middle Class: An Empirical Analysis,” (with A. Eizenberg) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(3), (2015) pp. 85-122

“Reduction in Local Ozone Levels in Urban São Paulo Due to a Shift from Ethanol to Gasoline Use,” (with F. M. Geiger) Nature Geoscience, 7(6) (2014), pp. 450-458

“Build It, But Will They Come? Evidence from Consumer Choice between Gasoline and Sugarcane Ethanol,” (with C.Huse) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 66(2), (2013) pp. 251-279

“Consumer-Surplus-Enhancing Collusion and Trade,” (with G. Deltas and H. Vasconcelos RAND Journal of Economics, 43(2), (2012) pp. 315-328

“Is Arbitrage Tying the Price of Ethanol to that of Gasoline? Evidence from the Uptake of Flexible-Fuel Technology,'' (with C. Huse) Energy Journal, 32(3), (2011) pp. 119-148

“Inferring Market Power under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry,” RAND Journal of Economics, 41(2), (2010) pp. 326-350. (An earlier version of this paper won an Antitrust Policy Award from the Brazilian Ministry of the Treasury in 2007)

“Trade Flows in a Spatial Oligopoly: Gravity Fits Well, But What Does it Explain?,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 43(1), (2010) pp. 63-96. (This paper won the Robert Mundell prize for the best article by a young economist published in 2010 in the Canadian Journal of Economics, awarded by the Canadian Economics Association.)

“Sequential Cross-border Mergers in Models of Oligopoly,” Economica, 77(306), (2010) pp. 352-383

“Cut-throat Fringe Competition in an Emerging Country Market: Tax Evasion or the Absence of Market Power?,” Journal of Industrial Economics, 57(4), (2009) pp. 677-711. (This paper won a Young Economists’ Essay Award from the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (in 2007).)