Research
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I am a PhD candidate in Economics at UCL working in applied microeconomics, labour, and development. My research studies how technology, data, and market institutions shape firms, workers, and bargaining outcomes.

Housing markets · Bargaining Technology · Data · Firms Automation · Distributional effects

How do technology and market design shape firms, workers, and bargaining?

This question anchors my agenda. I work across three connected settings: housing bargaining, firm digital transformation, and automation's distributional consequences.

Evidence: combining administrative records, disclosure text, and market data.
Behaviour: measuring pricing, bargaining, adoption, and labour-market responses.
Measurement: using applied econometrics and LLM-based text extraction carefully.

Guiding questions

  • — How do pricing formats signal information in bilateral housing bargaining?
  • — How can disclosure text reveal firm data use and technology adoption?
  • — How do industrial robots affect the distribution of factor income?
  • — When do automation and offshoring support inclusive growth?
Research programmes

Three programmes structuring the agenda

Programme 01 Housing

Housing bargaining & pricing formats

Studying how pricing formats signal bargaining-relevant information in housing markets and affect buyer-seller interactions.

  • • Coauthored with Haaris Mateen, Franklin Qian, and Ye Zhang
  • • Uses housing-market transaction and listing evidence
  • • Connects behavioural heuristics with bilateral bargaining outcomes
Programme 02 Firm dynamics

Data, technology & firm dynamics

An LLM-based measurement project that extracts firm data usage and technology adoption from Chinese listed-company disclosures.

  • • Panel of publicly traded Chinese firms from 2016 to 2022
  • • Measures complementarities among data use, AI, and digital technology
  • • Studies links to sales, productivity, investment, and employment
Programme 03 Labour

Automation, labour & development

Research on industrial robots, labour-market adjustment, and distributional effects, grounded in applied micro, labour, and development economics.

  • • Published work on industrial robots and factor income distribution
  • • Dissertation work on automation, offshoring, and inclusive growth
  • • Secondary interests in urban, demographic, and behavioural economics
Work in progress

Emerging research directions

These lines are intentionally listed at a high level while projects are still developing.

AI research

AI, data & economic decision-making

Work in progress on how AI and data-intensive technologies shape firms, workers, and market outcomes.

Platform economy

Gig work & platform-mediated labour markets

Work in progress on platform design, flexible work, and labour-market outcomes in digitally mediated settings.

Working paper 2024

The Numbers Game: Signaling Effects of Pricing Formats in Housing Bargaining

Coauthored research with Haaris Mateen, Franklin Qian, and Ye Zhang on how pricing formats signal information and shape bargaining in housing markets.

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Extended abstract 2025

Data, Technology, and Firm Dynamics: An LLM-Based Analysis

A 2016-2022 panel of Chinese listed firms measuring data usage and technology adoption from MD&A text, then linking those measures to firm outcomes.

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Publications & outputs

From peer-reviewed articles to working papers

Selected publications, working papers, and reports. Please reach out for drafts in progress or supplementary materials.

Published article

Journal article 2021

The Impacts of Industrial Robots on Factor Income Distribution

with Minghai Zhou & Qiushi Wang

Zhejiang Social Sciences, 6, 40-50. Chinese title: 工业机器人应用的要素收入分配效应.

Working papers & projects

Working paper 2025

The Numbers Game: Signaling Effects of Pricing Formats in Housing Bargaining

with Haaris Mateen, Franklin Qian & Ye Zhang

Studies how pricing formats signal information and shape bargaining outcomes in housing markets.

SSRN paper Request manuscript
Extended abstract 2025

Data, Technology, and Firm Dynamics: An LLM-Based Analysis

Solo-authored

Uses LLM-based text extraction on Chinese listed firms' MD&A sections to measure data usage, technology adoption, and firm dynamics from 2016 to 2022.

Extended abstract
Collaboration

Let's co-design research that travels

I am always happy to discuss research ideas, data sources, seminar feedback, and coauthor conversations around applied micro, labour, development, and technology adoption.