Research

Publications & working papers

• Zhu, X., Gu, Z., He, C. and Chen, W. (2023). “The impact of the belt and road initiative on Chinese PV firms’ export expansion”, Environment, Development and Sustainability. [https://doi.org/10. 1007/s10668-023-03705-z]

• Gu, Z., Jiang, Y., and Yang, S. (2022). “Estimating unobserved soft adjustment in credit rating models: before and after the Dodd-Frank act”, Journal of Financial Econometrics. [https://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nbac024]

• Zhu, X., Gu, Z. and He, C. (2021). “Benefit from local or destination? The export expansion of Chinese photovoltaic industry under trade protection”, Energy Economics. [https://doi. org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105690]

• Zhu, X., He, C. and Gu, Z. (2021). “How do local policies and trade barriers reshape the export of Chinese photovoltaic products?”, Journal of Cleaner Production. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123995]

Work in progress

• Gu, Z. “Additive separability and unobserved heterogeneity: A test for Hicks-neutral productivity shocks”, in progress, [PDF][Online Appendix]

• Fan, B. and Gu, Z. “Market power of Chinese listed firms: measurement, evolution and distribution”.

• He, J. and Gu, Z. “Collusion among country of origin? An empirical study of China's automobile market”.

• Zhu, X., Gu, Z. and Chen, W. “Can the Belt and Road Initiative alleviate the impact from trade protection against Chinese photovoltaic frims?”, under review.