Welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor of economics at at the University of Michigan, working on industrial organization, environmental and energy economics, and productivity.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in 2024-2025.
Email: lumingch@umich.edu.
Here is my CV.
Working Papers
The Social Value of Managed Electric Vehicle Charging. (January 2025)
with Hunt Allcott.
Notch and Catch: Dynamic Inefficiency in the Corporate Income Tax Schedule. (May 2025)
with Elisa Yu-Chun Cheng, Tzu-Ting Yang, and Hsing-Wen Han.
Publications
Entry Deregulation, Market Turnover, and Efficiency: China's Business Registration Reform.
with Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, and Xiaobo Zhang. Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2025.
The Welfare Effects of Vertical Integration in China's Movie Industry.
with Lisa Xuejie Yi and Chuan Yu. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16(2). May 2024.
Teaching
ECON 471 Environmental Economics (Undergraduate), University of Michigan, Fall 2025.
ECON 661 Environmental Economics (Ph.D.), University of Michigan, Fall 2025.