agent-tech practitioner · empirical economics

Zhenqiao Liang

I study trust, reform, and civic capital in China with careful empirics — and I build the agent stacks that keep that research running.

Google Scholar Selected research Contact

RePEc / IDEAS OpenAlex llms.txt sitemap

# About

Economist at Chongqing Technology and Business University (RePEc: pli1426). Training and collaborations span Chongqing University and applied micro topics on rural institutions, agricultural practices, and state-owned enterprise reform.

Day to day I pair R-based empirical workflows with multi-agent tooling — Mac-side orchestration, remote browser workers, and long-running research pipelines — so papers and systems improve each other.

~/profile

name: Zhenqiao Liang
role: empirical economist
focus:
  - trust & cooperation
  - SOE reform & labor
  - rural civic capital
stack:
  - R · agents · remote browser
links:
  - scholar · repec · openalex

# Research

Selected works (OpenAlex / SSRN / CEQ). Counts as of 2026-09.

2026
The evolution of civic capital in rural China: Sons and Voting in village elections
with Congming Ding · SSRN preprint
2018
Crops, Cooperation and Trust Pattern: Empirical Evidence from China
with Congming Ding & Ying Zhou · China Economic Quarterly · ~10 citations
2016
Growing Up in China's SOEs Reform
with Zhi Li & Congming Ding · SSRN

Full citation graph via Google Scholar. Affiliation listing on IDEAS/RePEc.

# Systems

Agent orchestration

Multi-agent research loops on Mac mini (seedmux coordinators, Claude Code, practice-oriented prompt packs) for literature, extraction, and nightly archives.

Remote browser workers

Steel Browser self-host on VPS for serial open → screenshot → pack pipelines; Mac keeps LLM extraction. CDP stays on localhost via SSH tunnel.

Empirical tooling

R on Apple Silicon for applied micro; Lexar disk for research archives; agent-readable llms.txt so crawlers and coding agents can navigate this site.

# Labs

Small public MWEs on the same host — experiments, not the research CV.

Content-site MWE

Long-tail SEO niche site shell (guides, FAQ, command builder, ad placeholders).

Open /nzk-mwe/

HTML5 games portal MWE

Portal IA with category pages, /play SEO landings, and MIT embeds — aggregation, not hand-building every game.

Open /games-mwe/

# Contact

Prefer academic or systems collaboration notes via Scholar / RePEc profiles above. This site is served from a personal VPS; infra notes for agents live in llms.txt.

Reach via Scholar RePEc profile

Public HTTP only. Steel API / CDP are not exposed on this host.