"This book systematically analyses how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in...

The ‘China shock’ operated in part through the housing market, which is one reason why its impact was so large on U.S. labor market. We add housing to a multi-region monopolistic competition model, with individuals choosing whether and where to work. Controlling for housing reduces the...

The ‘China shock’ operated in part through the housing market, which is one reason why its impact was so large in the United States. We add housing to a multi-region monopolistic competition model, with individuals choosing whether and where to work. Controlling for housing reduces the...

The 'China shock' operated in part through the housing market, and that is an important reason why the China shock was as big as it was. If housing prices had not responded at all to the China shock, then the total employment effect of the China shock would have been reduced by more than...

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has caused a global food security crisis, impacting sustainable development goals. Predicting the crisis's impact on food security is crucial for global stability by 2030. From a macro-perspective, this paper constructs a food security evaluation indicator system and...

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United States, both of which have been expanding strongly during the past decades. We find that although Chinese imports reduce jobs, at both the industry level and the local commuting...

The emphasis is to inspect the contribution of non-global value chains embedding,global value chains embedding and different embedding modes on the fluctuation ofChina's export growth rate. The results indicate that, China's export growth rate holds asignificant "transitional fluctuations"...