Publications

Scarcity Premium: How Anti-Corruption Campaigns Reprice Corporate Political Connections in China
Research on nonmarket strategy has produced rich evidence that political connections generate rents through preferential procurement, …
Chengyu Fu
Navigating Legal Fragmentation: How Subnational Legal Heterogeneity Shapes Foreign Direct Investment Location Choices
Why do some locations with strong legal institutions attract foreign direct investment while others struggle to compete? This paper …
Chengyu Fu
The Illusion of Foreign Capital: Estimating Round-Trip FDI in China using Firm-level Data
The concept of foreign direct investment (FDI) has become foundational to theories of globalization, interdependence, and political …
Jack Zhang, Samantha Vortherms, Chengyu Fu, and Uras Demir
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Gathering, Evaluating, and Aggregating Social Scientific Models
On what basis can we claim a scholarly community understands a phenomenon? Social scientists generally propagate many rival …
Chengyu Fu, with Miriam A. Golden and other collaborators
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Fiscal Centralization and Firm Tax Burdens: Evidence from China's VAT Reform
Tax reforms and fiscal restructuring are reshaping the institutional terrain of emerging markets, yet headline reforms often interact …
Chengyu Fu
Political Corruption and Voter Turnout: The Effects of Perception, Experience, and Purchases
Voter turnout reflects political participation in both democracies and autocracies, and corruption’s impact on turnout is a matter of …
Chengyu Fu
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Gender Norms and Firms' Corruption: Evidence from China
Researchers argue that women are less likely to engage in bribery than men. However, it is unclear which underlying formal or informal …
Chengyu Fu
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