Research

Working papers, peer-reviewed publications, books, and research in progress.

Working Papers

Crops, Insects, and Diseases: Ecological Consequences of a Straw-Burning Ban

Wen Wang, Congyuan Cui, Gordon G. Liu, Zhengwen Liu, and Yun Qiu

Working paper

Conferences: NBER SI Environmental & Energy Economics; World Environment and Resource Economics Conference; PKU IGHD & SOE; DKU Environmental Economics Workshop; Asian Economic Development Conference; 8th International Conference of China and Development Studies.

Displacement and the Consequences of Gentrification

Wen Wang and Christopher Timmins

Working paper

Conferences: NBER SI Environmental & Energy Economics; Camp Resources XXV; Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference; ASSA Annual Conference.

Environmental Gentrification

Wen Wang

Working paper

Conferences: AERE Summer Conference; AREUEA National Conference; CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop; Camp Resources XXVI; Urban Economic Association (UEA) Annual Conference; Western Economic Association (WEAI) Annual Conference; Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference; ASSA Annual Conference.

The Welfare Effects of Expanding Housing Supply Through Subdivision

Jiayin Hu, Shangchen Li, Wen Wang, and Yue Yu

Working paper

Conferences: 8th Workshop on Urban Economics; 4th Summer Meeting in Urban Economics; European UEA; 3rd Annual Conference on Asia and the Global Economy.

Costly Price Adjustment and Automated Pricing: The Case of Airbnb

Wen Wang and Qi Pan

Working paper

Conferences: Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference – World Marketing Congress; INFORMS Marketing Science Annual Meeting.

Fired Up or Burned Down: Wildfires and VC Investment

Zhengchu Zhang, Joy Tianjiao Tong, and Wen Wang

Working paper

Conferences: Canadian Economics Association (CEA) Annual Conference; Western Economic Association (WEAI) Annual Conference; China International Conference in Finance (CICF); Northern Finance Association Annual Conference (NFA).

The Recovery of Forest and its Impacts on Left-Behind Children in Western China

Wen Wang and Christopher Timmins

Working paper

Conferences: AERE Summer Institute Conference; China Association of Environmental and Resource Economics; Western Economic Association (WEAI) Annual Conference; Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference; AARES Conference; NAREA Scholar Circle.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

On the identification of state space models with exogenous shifts: An application to car sales data

Zhehao Hu, Qi Pan, and Wen Wang

Economics Letters, 264, 112925 (2026)

Lost Green Leaders: Is China’s Green Financial Regulation Efficient?

Wen Wang, Qi Pan, and Xiaoming Xie

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 103, 103189 (2025)

The Enduring Effects of China’s Payments for Ecosystem Services: Short- and Long-term Industrial Transformations

Wen Wang and Qi Pan

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130 (2025)

The Impact of Internet Sales Tax in a Search Model of Money: Some Analytical Results

Tiantian Dai, Shenyi Jiang, Xiangbo Liu, and Wen Wang

Annals of Economics and Finance, 17(1), 133–144 (2016)

Book

Corporate China: Structure and Change (Volume 3): Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China: Dynamics of Entry and Exit

Wen Wang and Yi-Min Lin

World Scientific (2026)

Research in Progress