Research
Publications
Forthcoming. “Less Is More: Property Rights and Dictators’ Demand for Foreign Direct Investment.” Review of International Organizations. (with Jacque Gao)
2023. “Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes.” World Politics 75 (2): 316–352. (with Jon C.W. Pevehouse and Ryan M. Powers)
2023. “Partners with Benefits: When Multinational Corporations Succeed in Authoritarian Courts.” International Organization 77 (1): 144–178. (with Jian Xu)
Winner of the David A. Lake Award for best paper at the 2019 International Political Economy Society Conference
2021. “Extended Dependence: Trade, Alliances, and Peace.” Journal of Politics 83 (1): 246–259.
Winner of the Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for outstanding research by a graduate student in the social sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019–20
Winner of the Mildred Potter Hovland Award for best article by a Political Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2018–19
Coverage: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Monkey Cage
2019. “Disentangling Bias: National Capabilities, Regime Type, and International Conflict Mediation.” Conflict Management & Peace Science 36 (2): 149–168.
Winner of the Mildred Potter Hovland Award for best article by a Political Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2016–17
Research in Progress
“Firm Nationality and Local Government Preferences for Foreign Direct Investment.” (with Jonathan A. Chu) Under review.
“Compliance in Non-Compliant Territories: How Jurisdictional Exposure Regulates Multinational Corporations.” (with Jian Xu) Under review.
“Foreign Policy in Hard Economic Times.”
“Horses for Courses: Types and Performance of U.S. Ambassadors.” (with Zhenhuan Lei)
“Strategic Substitutions: Exchange Rate Regimes, Geopolitics, and Trade.”