A collaborative research paper titled “Exporting Like China: Productivity, Market Demand, and Labor Frictions”, co-authored by Professor Russell Cooper and Professor Yan Ping from the China Economic Research Institute at Liaoning University, together with Professor Gong Guan of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Assistant Professor Hu Guanliang of City University of Hong Kong, was accepted for publication in the top-tier economics journal International Economic Review (IER).
This publication is the 16th internationally top-tier journal article produced in recent years by faculty members of the Division of Economics at Liaoning University. It follows a series of contributions to leading journals across major fields of economics, including Review of Economics and Statistics (one article by Yu Miaojie), Journal of Development Economics (one article each by Yu Miaojie, Yin Lijuan, Yang Guohao, and Wang Zhifeng), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (one article by Qiu Huanguang), Journal of International Economics (one article by Ma Xiangjun), Journal of Public Economics (one article by Chen Feng), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (one article by Gao Ming), Journal of Labor Economics (one article by Yang Zhe), Journal of Economic Theory (one article by He Chao), Journal of Human Resources (one article by Zhou Yu), Journal of Monetary Economics (one article by Wang Xiaowen), and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (one article each by Yang Zhe and Chen Feng).
This accomplishment represents another landmark achievement in Liaoning University’s “Double First-Class” development, marking significant progress in the high-quality research output of Liaoning University’s applied economics discipline.
Paper Introduction
This study investigates multiple factors that shape firms’ export decisions, with a particular focus on differences in export behavior between Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs). The authors have developed a dynamic structural model that incorporates firms’ export choices, labor adjustment costs, productivity shocks, market demand shocks, and trade costs, and estimate the model using firm-level data.
The analysis found that export decisions of non-SOEs respond more strongly to demand shocks, whereas SOEs’ export decisions exhibit greater sensitivity to productivity shocks. Based on the model, the authors conducted simulation exercises to evaluate how tariffs, trade policy uncertainty, and China’s countermeasures affect firms’ export behavior and employment outcomes.
Journal Introduction
International Economic Review (IER), established in 1960, is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and published by the globally renowned Wiley-Blackwell. It is widely recognized as a leading comprehensive journal in the field of economics.
About the authors
Professor Russell W. Cooper
Professor Russell W. Cooper joined Liaoning University as a full-time teacher in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has published more than 100 papers across macroeconomics, industrial organization, international economics, experimental economics, labor economics, and monetary economics. Notably, he has published 19 influential articles in top-tier economics journals (TOP 5). His research covers business cycles, firm dynamics, fiscal and monetary policy, among other areas.
He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and previously held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin (where he served as Department Chair), Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Iowa, Boston University, Pennsylvania State University, and the European University Institute.
Professor Yan Ping
Professor Yan Ping joined Liaoning University as a full-time teacher in 2025. She has published extensive research papers in leading domestic and international journals such as Economic Journal, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Research (Quarterly), Management World, and World Economy. She has also received the Annual Outstanding Paper Award from Economic Science.
She has presided over four National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and has participated as a key member in several internationally oriented research collaborations. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008.
Paper link:
https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/239688/version/V2/view
