Contact Information:
Department of Economics
Purdue University
403 West State Street
West Lafayette IN 47907-2056

E-Mail: cxiang@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-4499
Fax: (765) 494-9658
Office: Krannert 405

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Research Interests
International trade, industrial organization, international finance, applied econometrics.

Working Papers:

Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations Joint with Gordon Hanson. NBER working paper 16964. Revised and resubmitted, Journal of International Economics.

The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data. Joint with David Hummels, Rasmus Jorgensen, and Jakob Munch. NBER working paper 17496. Revised and resubmitted, American Economic Review.

Product Cycles in U.S. Imports Data. Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. Appendix

Publications

Offshoring, Transition, and Training: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data. Joint with David Hummels, Jakob R. Munch and Lars Skipper. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2012.

"Trade Barriers and Trade Flows with Product Heterogeneity: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports", joint with Gordon Hanson, Journal of International Economics 83, pp. 14-26, 2011. (previously NBER Working Paper 14461.) Data for Linguistic Distance.   Data for Religion Dissimilarity.

"Explaining Import Variety and Quality: the Role of the Income Distribution", joint with YoChul Choi and David Hummels. Journal of International Economics, vol. 77 (2), 265-275. Theory Appendix.

"Factor Uses and the Pattern of Specialization", joint with Georg Schaur and Anya Savikhin. Review of International Economics, 16(2), 368-382, 2008.

"Diversification Cones, Trade Costs and Factor Market Linkages". Journal of International Economics, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 448-466.

"New Goods and Skill Premium" Journal of International Economics, Volume 71, Issue 1 , 8 March 2007, Pages 133-147. The original version is RSIE working paper #478, the University of Michigan.

"New Goods and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor," Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2005, pp. 285 - 298. The original version is RSIE working paper #479, the University of Michigan. The Complete List of Narrow-Definition New Goods

"The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns", joint with Gordon H. Hanson. American Economic Review, September 2004, 94(4), pp 1108 - 1129. Much improved as compared with the original version, NBER working paper # 9076.

"The Sufficiency of the 'Lens Condition' for Factor Prie Equalization in the Case of Two Factors", Journal of International Economics, (53)2 (2001) pp. 463-474.