Publications

Publications and Research Outputs

This page lists working papers, published journal articles, monographs and other research outputs. Some associated datasets are available through Harvard Dataverse.

Working Papers

Patient Capital and Firm Resilience in China: Evidence from A-Share Listed Firms

Zhen Yu, Xiaolong Liu, and Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at China & World Economy.

Title Registration, Property-Rights Information and Secured Credit: A Law-and-Economics Analysis of Hong Kong's Land Law Reform

Michael D. Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, and Weiwen Chen · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at European Journal of Law and Economics.

Adverse Possession, Real Property Taxation and Housing-Wealth Redistribution

Michael D. Wang, Min Wang, and Qiuting Ma · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at Hong Kong Law Journal.

Legal Origin Beyond Labels: Moral Distance, Administrative Power, and Market Efficiency

Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy.

Distributive justice in an agent-based economy-demography: population and inequality dynamics under Rawlsian and Nozickian institutions

Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at Asia Nexus Journal of Management.

Redistribution, Inequality, and Household Welfare in China: CHIP Evidence and Micro-calibrated Counterfactuals

Zhen Yu and Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at China Economic Review.

Development Finance, Innovation Frictions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Local Technology Finance in China

Zhen Yu, Yuanbo Li, and Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at Review of Development Economics.

Relational and Public Contracts in Platform Competition: Evidence from China's E-Commerce Duopoly

Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at International Review of Law & Economics.

Subsidies or Stability? Return and Risk Channels of Industrial Policy in Capital Markets

Zhen Yu, Michael D. Wang, and Shi Li · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at Journal of Accounting Literature.

Antitrust Implications in Discriminative AI: Analyzing the Trade-offs Between Competition and Privacy Protection

Michael D. Wang · 2026 · Working paper

Under consideration at The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy.

Copyright Protection of AI-Generated Works: An Empirical Analysis of Academic Impact in Law and Literature

Michael D. Wang · 2025 · Working paper

The 5th Machine Lawyering Conference Paper.

Journal Articles

Industrial upgrading and the quality of migrant labour: spatial inequality, digital transformation, and policy pathways in contemporary China

Zhen Yu, Michael D. Wang, and Haodong Zhai · 2025 · Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 1-37

Empirical insights on evidential presumptions: The impact of Pang Siu Hing v Tsang Kwok Man in Hong Kong

Michael D. Wang · 2025 · Trusts & Trustees, ttaf023

News credibility and influence within the financial markets

Zhen Yu, Michael D. Wang, Xiangdong Wei, and Jie Lou · 2023 · Journal of Behavioral Finance, 24(2), 238-257

Effects of Mobile Identity on Smartphone Symbolic Use: An Attachment Theory Perspective

Jie Lou, Nianlong Han, Dong Wang, and Xi Pei · 2022 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21), 14036

Measuring political and economic uncertainty: a supervised computational linguistic approach

Michael D. Wang, Jie Lou, Dong Zhang, and C. Simon Fan · 2022 · SN Business & Economics, 2(5), 37

Understanding the deep structure use of mobile phones--an attachment perspective

Jie Lou, Lingzhao Deng, and Dong Wang · 2022 · Behaviour & Information Technology, 41(15), 3191-3209

The effects of shadow banking on stability and profitability of China’s commercial banks evidence from panel VAR

Yiran Cao and D. Wang · 2019 · General and Social Science: Current Trends, 1(2)

The impacts of macroeconomic factors on Chinese short-term treasury yield: an application of a vector error correction model

Yiran Cao, Jiehui Shen, Dong Wang, and Yanling Zhao · 2019 · General and Social Science: Current Trends, 1(1)

An empirical analysis of the Phillips Curve: a time series exploration of Hong Kong

Dong Wang · 2016 · Lingnan Journal of Banking, Finance and Economics, 6(1), 4

Books and Book Chapters

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Political Risk Management: An NLP Analysis of the 2019 US-China Trade War

Michael D. Wang · 2023 · IntechOpen

“Yidaiyilu” changyi de fazhan ji quanqiu dingwei (“一带一路”倡议的发展及全球定位)

Shiping Guo and Dong Wang · 2019 · Hong Qi Press · Chapter 1

Yuegang'ao dawanqu guihua he quanqiu dingwei (粤港澳大湾区规划和全球定位)

Shiping Guo and Dong Wang · 2018 · Guangdong People's Publishing House · Chapter 1, pp. 3-14

Conference Papers and Other Research Outputs

Antitrust Implications in Big Data Industries: Analyzing the Trade-offs Between Competition and Privacy Protection

Michael D. Wang · 2024 · The 4th Machine Lawyering Conference Paper