I’m a PhD candidate in Economics at Simon Fraser University, supervised by Lucas Herrenbrueck. My research interests lie in macroeconomic theory, monetary policy, and family economics. I study how policies transmit through banks and households: on the monetary side, I analyze China’s 2015 deposit-rate liberalization and reserve-requirement adjustments to quantify pass-through and to build structural models of deposit pricing and bank competition; on the family side, I develop overlapping-generations (OLG) frameworks and use micro data to examine how fertility, education, and pensions interact with policy and demographics. In addition, I collaborate with computer science researchers on a game-theoretic framework for censorship and circumvention, which models adaptive strategies between censors and censorship-resistance systems. Outside of research, I enjoy photography.
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Working paper (2025). After the removal of the deposit-rate ceiling, bank deposit rates become more responsive to RRR changes, while average deposit rates decline. I provide supporting bank-level difference-in-differences evidence and a structural deposit-pricing model with reserve requirements that rationalizes both findings.
Working paper (2025). Censorship and circumvention are strategic: censors adapt blocking while circumventors adjust obfuscation. I develop a unified game-theoretic framework where detectability is endogenous. The model characterizes one-shot and repeated-game equilibria, derives incentive-compatibility thresholds for sustained obfuscation, and shows how variance and seasonality in traffic can deter aggressive blocking under risk-averse censors.
Work in progress. A demographic OLG model where households choose fertility, education, savings, and elderly labor. I study how taxes and pension schemes shape intergenerational welfare under population aging and human-capital externalities, highlighting distinct long-run effects of fertility subsidies and pension transfers on population dynamics and human-capital accumulation.
Work in progress. Tests whether local governments strategically under-report extreme temperatures to reduce obligations for heat-related labor compensation. I compare official CMA data to ERA5 reanalysis, detect bunching just below thresholds (35°C, 37°C, 40°C), and link manipulation intensity to local fiscal stress.
Work in progress. Firms jointly choose prices and costly consumer reach. With standard concave cost structures no symmetric equilibrium exists; richer reach-cost formulations restore equilibrium, yielding implications for pricing in markets with search frictions and limited attention.
Work in progress. Explores how first-child gender and cultural preferences shape second-birth decisions in China, leveraging CFPS (2010–2020) data and two quasi-experiments: the 2013 selective relaxation and the 2016 universal two-child policy. Using staggered event-study and discrete-time hazard models, I quantify how daughter-first families responded to policy openings. A novel household-level Culture Index captures heterogeneity in these effects, revealing cultural persistence under low-fertility regimes.
Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University 06/2024 – Present
Assisted Prof. Lucas Herrenbrueck on liquidity pricing.
Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University 06/2023 – 01/2024
Assisted Prof. Serena Canaan on advisor religion and student outcomes.
Research Assistant, UBC Vancouver School of Economics 01/2020 – 09/2020
Worked with Prof. Li Hao on “Nash Equilibrium in Penalty Shootouts.”
Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University 09/2022 – Present