Selected Working Papers:

• The Leverage of Terrorists on Democratic Regimes (with Shiqi Guo, Ruoran Zhao)

  • Revised and Resubmitted. 2024.

• Measuring Gender and Racial Biases in LLMs (with Chen Lin, Difang Huang, and Mingzhu Tai)

  • Revised and Resubmitted. 2024.

• Foreign-aided Infrastructure and Local Employment: Evidence from China's Aid to Africa (with Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang)

  •  Journal of Comparative Economics. Conditionally Accepted. 2024.

• Epidemic Disease and Innovation (Ruoran Zhao)

  • Revise and Resubmit. 2024.

• The Psychological Cost of War: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion (with Tenghui Wang, Chen Lin, Binley Chen, Peng Gong)

  • Revise and Resubmit. 2024.

Selected Publications:

• Colonial Legacy and Informal Finance (with Chen Lin, Mingzhu Tai) 

  • Management Science. 2024.

• Epidemic Disease and Financial Development (with Chen Lin and Wenxuan Hou) 

  • Journal of Financial Economics. 2022.

• Does Terrorism Make People Pessimistic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Shiqi Guo) 

  • Journal of Development Economics. 2022.

• ChatGPT: Tackle the Growing Carbon Footprint of Generative AI (with Wenzhi Ding and Chen Lin)

  • Nature. 2023. 

• Optimize Urban Shade Using Digital Twins of Cities (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, and Peng Gong)

  • Nature. 2023.

• The Interplay of Nature and 3D Urban Structures Reduces Human Access to Sunlight (with Bin Chen, Chen Lin, Shengbiao Wu, Peng Gong)

  • Nature Cities. 2024.

• Is There an Employee-based Gender Gap in Informal Financial Markets? International Evidence (Single Author)

  • Journal of Corporate Finance. 2020. 

I can be contacted at: jiafuan at hku.hk