I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Mannheim and a member of Project B07 within the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 (Bonn/Mannheim). My advisors are Ulrich Wagner, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Mateus Souza. My main research interests are in environmental economics, development economics and international trade.

You can find my CV here.

I will be on the 2025–26 job market.

Current Research

Road to Green? The Effect of Highway Expansion on Industrial Emissions Intensity (Job Market Paper)

This paper examines whether highway expansion, beyond improving connectivity and lowering trade costs, can also reduce the emissions intensity of industrial production. I develop a general equilibrium model in which emissions are an endogenous by-product of firms’ output, and show that highways can lower aggregate emissions intensity by fostering tougher competition and improving resource allocation, especially where trade costs were initially high. Empirically, I use detailed firm-level data from China and a network-based instrument to show that highway expansion reduces markup dispersion and lowers SO₂ and COD emissions intensity at the province level, consistent with improved resource allocation. Using geospatial highway data and a complementary instrumental variable strategy, I further document reductions in emissions intensity at the county level. These results reveal an overlooked environmental co-benefit of transport infrastructure, highlighting its potential to jointly enhance economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.

Public Health Co-benefits of the EU CBAM in China: Evidence from the Iron and Steel Sector (joint with Sabine Stillger and Yixuan Gu)

Recent Talks

13th World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 2025, Seoul

40th meeting of the European Economic Association, August 2025, Bordeaux

30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June 2025, Bergen

German Development Economics Conference, June 2025, Frankfurt

30th Annual ENTER Jamboree, June 2025, Stockholm

13th Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment, May 2025, Mannheim

15th CRC TR 224 Workshop for Young Researchers, May 2025, Bonn

Teaching

Microeconomics B (TA, Bachelor, University of Mannheim), Fall 2023, 2024, 2025

Advanced Microeconomics (TA, Master, University of Mannheim), Fall 2022

Mathematical Economics (TA, Bachelor, Xiamen University), Spring 2019