Academic Publications
1. Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax Break Policy.
American Journal of Political Science 64(5), 2021: 845-861 (with Ling Chen).
2. Projecting Political Power: China's Changing Maritime Strategy.
Chinese Journal of International Politics 12(2), 2019: 229-261 (with Kejin Zhao).
Papers in Progress
1. The Political Origins of Rules of Origin (with In Song Kim).
2. Commerce, Coalitions, and Global Value Chains: A New Framework for Trade Politics.
3. State Intervention and Corporate Internationalization: Evidence From Chinese Infrastructure Contractors.
4. Strong State, Weak Enforcement: Bureaucratic Forbearance and Regressive Consequences of China’s Social Insurance Policies (with Ye Zhang).
Statistical Software
1. Liao, Steven, In Song Kim, Sayumi Miyano, and Hao Zhang. concordance: Concordance Utilities for International Trade Research, available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub Repository.
Conference Presentations
2022 International Relations Data and Computing Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2022 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) - Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, U.S.
2021 Research Workshop in Political Economy, Department of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
2021 Center for Asian Legal Studies Speaker Series, University of British Columbia, Canada
2019 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) - Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, U.S.
2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) - Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, U.S.
2017 UPenn China and International Relations Graduate Student Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.
2017 International Studies Association - West Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA, U.S.
2016 Yousei Conference on the Regional Order in Northeast Asia, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Third Asian Political Methodology Conference, Beijing, China
2014 Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford, Stanford, CA, U.S.
1. Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax Break Policy.
American Journal of Political Science 64(5), 2021: 845-861 (with Ling Chen).
2. Projecting Political Power: China's Changing Maritime Strategy.
Chinese Journal of International Politics 12(2), 2019: 229-261 (with Kejin Zhao).
Papers in Progress
1. The Political Origins of Rules of Origin (with In Song Kim).
2. Commerce, Coalitions, and Global Value Chains: A New Framework for Trade Politics.
3. State Intervention and Corporate Internationalization: Evidence From Chinese Infrastructure Contractors.
4. Strong State, Weak Enforcement: Bureaucratic Forbearance and Regressive Consequences of China’s Social Insurance Policies (with Ye Zhang).
Statistical Software
1. Liao, Steven, In Song Kim, Sayumi Miyano, and Hao Zhang. concordance: Concordance Utilities for International Trade Research, available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network and GitHub Repository.
Conference Presentations
2022 International Relations Data and Computing Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2022 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) - Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, U.S.
2021 Research Workshop in Political Economy, Department of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
2021 Center for Asian Legal Studies Speaker Series, University of British Columbia, Canada
2019 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) - Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, U.S.
2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) - Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, U.S.
2017 UPenn China and International Relations Graduate Student Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.
2017 International Studies Association - West Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA, U.S.
2016 Yousei Conference on the Regional Order in Northeast Asia, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Third Asian Political Methodology Conference, Beijing, China
2014 Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford, Stanford, CA, U.S.
