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Working Papers

2025

1. Financial and Informational Integration Through Oracle Networks
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Strategic Digitization in Currency and Payment Competition
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. The Tokenomics of Staking
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

4. A Dataset of Uniswap daily transaction indices by network
   Papers, arXiv.org
5. Cournot Competition, Informational Feedback, and Real Efficiency
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
6. Distributed Ledgers and Secure Multi-Party Computation for Financial Reporting and Auditing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
7. FinTech Platforms and Asymmetric Network Effects: Theory and Evidence from Marketplace Lending
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
8. Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
9. Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Cost of Biodiversity Conservation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
10. Textual Factors: A Scalable, Interpretable, and Data-driven Approach to Analyzing Unstructured Information
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
11. The Rise of E-Wallet Super-Apps and Buy-Now-Pay-Later
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
12. The Rise of Factor Investing: "Passive" Security Design and Market Implications
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

13. A Model of Influencer Economy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
14. An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
15. Data Union and Regulation in a Data Economy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
16. Inclusion and Democratization Through Web3 and DeFi? Initial Evidence from the Ethereum Ecosystem
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
17. Information Cascades and Threshold Implementation: Theory and An Application to Crowdfunding
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Information Cascades and Threshold Implementation: Theory and an Application to Crowdfunding, Journal of Finance, American Finance Association (2024) View citations (2) (2024)
18. Is decentralized finance actually decentralized? A social network analysis of the Aave protocol on the Ethereum blockchain
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (6)
19. Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
20. RIM-Based Value Premium and Factor Pricing Using Value-Price Divergence
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article RIM-based value premium and factor pricing using value-price divergence, Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
21. Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence, Management Science, INFORMS (2023) (2023)
22. Sparse Modeling Under Grouped Heterogeneity with an Application to Asset Pricing
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
23. The Rise of E-Wallets and Buy-Now-Pay-Later: Payment Competition, Credit Expansion, and Consumer Behavior
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
24. Uniswap Daily Transaction Indices by Network
    OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science

2022

25. Crypto Wash Trading
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2021) View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Crypto Wash Trading, Management Science, INFORMS (2023) (2023)
26. Growing the Efficient Frontier on Panel Trees
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
27. Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Tax-loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (6) (2023)
28. The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
    Applied Economics and Policy Working Paper Series, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (7)

2021

29. An AI-assisted Economic Model of Endogenous Mobility and Infectious Diseases: The Case of COVID-19 in the United States
    Papers, arXiv.org
30. Deep Sequence Modeling: Development and Applications in Asset Pricing
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (3)
31. Endogenous Growth Under Multiple Uses of Data
    Papers, arXiv.org
    See also Journal Article Endogenous growth under multiple uses of data, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier (2022) View citations (11) (2022)
32. Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China, Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship, now publishers (2020) View citations (3) (2020)
33. Knowledge Accumulation, Privacy, and Growth in a Data Economy
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (28)
    See also Journal Article Knowledge Accumulation, Privacy, and Growth in a Data Economy, Management Science, INFORMS (2021) View citations (18) (2021)
34. SMEs Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation
    Applied Economics and Policy Working Paper Series, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (1)
35. Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development
    See also Journal Article Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation, Management Science, INFORMS (2024) (2024)

2020

36. Token-Based Platform Finance
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
    Also in Working Paper Series, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics (2019) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Token-based platform finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (37) (2022)
37. Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (27)
    Also in Working Paper Series, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics (2018) View citations (54)
    See also Journal Article Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation, The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies (2021) View citations (114) (2021)

2019

38. Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools, The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies (2021) View citations (49) (2021)

2018

39. Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (43)
    See also Journal Article Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts, The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies (2019) View citations (199) (2019)
40. Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China: A Public Policy Perspective
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (2)
41. Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from IPO Interventions in China
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2016

42. Dynamic Coordination and Intervention Policy
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Journal Articles

2024

1. Call for Papers— Management Science Virtual Special Issue on Digital Finance
   Management Science, 2024, 70, (8), vi-vii
2. Information Cascades and Threshold Implementation: Theory and an Application to Crowdfunding
   Journal of Finance, 2024, 79, (1), 579-629 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Information Cascades and Threshold Implementation: Theory and An Application to Crowdfunding, NBER Working Papers (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
3. Opportunities and challenges associated with the development of FinTech and Central Bank Digital Currency
   Journal of Financial Stability, 2024, 73, (C) View citations (2)
4. Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation
   Management Science, 2024, 70, (7), 4564-4582
   See also Working Paper Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation, Working Papers (2021) (2021)
5. Spatiotemporal Correlation Analysis for Predicting Current Transformer Errors in Smart Grids
   Energies, 2024, 17, (7), 1-14

2023

6. Advances in Blockchain and Crypto Economics
   Management Science, 2023, 69, (11), 6417-6426
7. Crypto Wash Trading
   Management Science, 2023, 69, (11), 6427-6454
   See also Working Paper Crypto Wash Trading, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (1) (2022)
8. RIM-based value premium and factor pricing using value-price divergence
   Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023, 149, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper RIM-Based Value Premium and Factor Pricing Using Value-Price Divergence, NBER Working Papers (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
9. Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence
   Management Science, 2023, 69, (12), 7306-7316
   See also Working Paper Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence, NBER Working Papers (2023) View citations (4) (2023)
10. Tax-loss harvesting with cryptocurrencies
    Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2023, 76, (2) View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2022

11. Endogenous growth under multiple uses of data
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, 141, (C) View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Endogenous Growth Under Multiple Uses of Data, Papers (2021) (2021)
12. Persistent Blessings of Luck: Theory and an Application to Venture Capital
    The Review of Financial Studies, 2022, 35, (3), 1183-1221 View citations (3)
13. Token-based platform finance
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 144, (3), 972-991 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper Token-Based Platform Finance, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (7) (2020)

2021

14. Call for Papers— Management Science Special Issue on Blockchains and Crypto Economics
    Management Science, 2021, 67, (1), 6-7
15. Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools
    (Concentrating on the fall of the labor share)
    The Review of Financial Studies, 2021, 34, (3), 1191-1235 View citations (49)
    See also Working Paper Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (21) (2019)
16. Knowledge Accumulation, Privacy, and Growth in a Data Economy
    Management Science, 2021, 67, (10), 6480-6492 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper Knowledge Accumulation, Privacy, and Growth in a Data Economy, Papers (2021) View citations (28) (2021)
17. Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from Initial Public Offering Interventions in China
    Management Science, 2021, 67, (11), 7238-7261 View citations (23)
18. Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation
    (The demand of liquid assets with uncertain lumpy expenditures)
    The Review of Financial Studies, 2021, 34, (3), 1105-1155 View citations (114)
    See also Working Paper Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (27) (2020)

2020

19. Dynamic interventions and informational linkages
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2020, 135, (1), 1-15 View citations (10)
20. Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China
    Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship, 2020, 16, (1), 1-64 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China, Papers (2021) View citations (7) (2021)
21. Persuasion in relationship finance
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2020, 138, (3), 818-837 View citations (2)
22. Timing of Auctions of Real Options
    Management Science, 2020, 66, (9), 3956-3976 View citations (5)

2019

23. Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts
    The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, 32, (5), 1754-1797 View citations (199)
    See also Working Paper Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (43) (2018)
24. Credit Allocation Under Economic Stimulus: Evidence from China
    The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, 32, (9), 3412-3460 View citations (149)

Chapters

2021

1. Alternative Data in FinTech and Business Intelligence
   Springer View citations (5)
2. Categories and Functions of Crypto-Tokens
   Springer View citations (8)

2020

3. A Brief Introduction to Blockchain Economics
   Chapter 1 in Information for Efficient Decision Making Big Data, Blockchain and Relevance, 2020, pp 1-40 View citations (3)
4. Analyzing Textual Information at Scale
   Chapter 10 in Information for Efficient Decision Making Big Data, Blockchain and Relevance, 2020, pp 239-271 View citations (1)