| International protection of intellectual property GM Grossman, ELC Lai American Economic Review 94 (5), 1635-1653, 2004 | 867 | 2004 |
| International intellectual property rights protection and the rate of product innovation ELC Lai Journal of Development economics 55 (1), 133-153, 1998 | 768 | 1998 |
| The North’s intellectual property rights standard for the South? ELC Lai, LD Qiu Journal of International Economics 59 (1), 183-209, 2003 | 263 | 2003 |
| Intellectual property rights protection and endogenous economic growth YK Kwan, ELC Lai Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 27 (5), 853-873, 2003 | 239 | 2003 |
| Patent length and the rate of innovation AW Horowitz, ELC Lai International Economic Review, 785-801, 1996 | 209 | 1996 |
| Outsourcing of innovation ELC Lai, R Riezman, P Wang Economic Theory 38, 485-515, 2009 | 191 | 2009 |
| Credit constraints, quality, and export prices: Theory and evidence from China H Fan, ELC Lai, YA Li Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (2), 390-416, 2015 | 190 | 2015 |
| Parallel imports and price controls GM Grossman, ELC Lai The Rand journal of economics 39 (2), 378-402, 2008 | 136 | 2008 |
| Adjustment costs and gradual trade liberalization T Furusawa, ELC Lai Journal of International Economics 49 (2), 333-361, 1999 | 115 | 1999 |
| The product cycle and the world distribution of income A reformulation ELC Lai Journal of International Economics 39 (3-4), 369-382, 1995 | 53 | 1995 |
| Invoicing currency in international trade: An empirical investigation and some implications for the renminbi ELC Lai, X Yu The world economy 38 (1), 193-229, 2015 | 52 | 2015 |
| Trade liberalization and firms’ export performance in China: Theory and evidence H Fan, ELC Lai, HS Qi Journal of Comparative Economics 47 (3), 640-668, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
| Protection of trade for innovation: the roles of Northern and Southern tariffs LD Qiu, ELC Lai Japan and the World Economy 16 (4), 449-470, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| The US–China trade war, the American public opinions and its effects on China ELC Lai Economic and Political Studies 7 (2), 169-184, 2019 | 37 | 2019 |
| Competition for foreign direct investment in the product cycle ELC Lai Japan and the World Economy 13 (1), 61-81, 2001 | 31 | 2001 |
| A model of trade with Ricardian comparative advantage and intra-sectoral firm heterogeneity H Fan, ELC Lai, HS Qi Available at SSRN 2361597, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination? ELC Lai, IKM Yan Journal of International Economics 89 (1), 42-54, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| Schumpeterian growth with gradual product obsolescence ELC Lai Journal of Economic Growth 3 (1), 81-103, 1998 | 21 | 1998 |
| Global gains from reduction in trade costs ELC Lai, H Fan, HS Qi Economic theory 70 (1), 313-345, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| International protection of intellectual property: corrigendum GM Grossman, ELC Lai The American Economic Review 96 (1), 456, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
