Yifan Zhang

ORCID: 0000-0003-2286-0178
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Research Areas
  • Global trade and economics
  • International Business and FDI
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Stock Market Forecasting Methods
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Global Trade and Competitiveness
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Innovation Policy and R&D

Zhejiang Gongshang University
2025

Shanghai University of Electric Power
2023-2024

China University of Mining and Technology
2022-2024

Institute of Earth Environment
2024

Chinese Academy of Sciences
2024

State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology
2024

Peking University
2015-2024

University of Hong Kong
2024

Changshu Institute of Technology
2024

Chinese University of Hong Kong
2012-2023

We examine the effects of trade liberalization in China on evolution markups and productivity manufacturing firms. Although these dimensions performance cannot be separately identified when firm output is measured by revenue, detailed price deflators make it possible to estimate average effect tariff reductions both. Several novel findings emerge. First, cuts tariffs reduce markups, but raise productivity. Second, pro-competitive are most important among incumbents, while efficiency gains...

10.1257/aer.20121266 article EN American Economic Review 2017-09-01

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, exploit exogenous variation induced by agricultural income shocks for identification. find that, when immigration increases, becomes more labor intensive productivity declines. investigate the reorganization of using patent applications product information. show that induces both labor-oriented technological change adoption varieties....

10.1257/aer.20191234 article EN American Economic Review 2022-05-31

10.1016/j.chieco.2009.05.010 article EN China Economic Review 2009-06-03

Using a firm-level data set for 1998 and 2005 including all of China's ‘above designated size’ enterprises that together account more than 85% industrial output, this paper investigates three issues. One key issue in system is the extent to which growth has been driven by productivity change. A second relative performance different ownership types, comparison state-owned versus various forms non-state ownership. The third whether across regions–coast, northeast, central, west–exhibits...

10.1080/14765280802028237 article EN Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 2008-04-23

This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities. Using administrative records business registration, we find that transfer a local leader between prefecture cities is associated with about 3% increase in along direction transfer. The comoving firms purchase larger parcels land and at lower prices. They also exhibit higher likelihood exiting when patrons leave office. Comoving does not probability promotion for transferred leaders,...

10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102717 article EN cc-by Journal of Development Economics 2021-08-09

This article studies how real exchange rate movements affect firm export behavior, using monthly data that cover the universe of Chinese transactions over period 2000–2006. Specifically, we examine effects on an exporter's extensive (entry, exit, and product churning) intensive margins exports. We find significant margin. A 10% appreciation renminbi is associated with a 1 percentage point decline in probability entry, 0.2 increase exit. The among foreign-invested enterprises almost double...

10.1093/cesifo/ifs006 article EN CESifo Economic Studies 2012-03-13

10.1016/j.jinteco.2021.103518 article EN Journal of International Economics 2021-07-29

Abstract This paper augments the model of Andreoni and Levinson by analyzing effect income distribution on inverted U‐shaped relationship between some forms pollution income, so‐called ‘environmental Kuznets curve’. In a context in which abatement technology shows increasing returns to scale an inverse pollution–income path is present, this study demonstrates existence majority voting equilibrium, concludes that median environmental degradation rather than per capita degradation. Our results...

10.1111/j.1468-0106.2011.00552.x article EN Pacific Economic Review 2011-08-01
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