Hello, welcome to my website! I am a PhD candidate at the Economics Department of University of Colorado at Boulder. My fields of interest include international trade and investment, economic development, and industrial organization.

Here is my CV (in pdf format).

My contact information:
Email: benli36 [at] gmail [dot] com
Voice: 1.720.475.6493
Mailing Address:
Department of Economics,
University of Colorado at Boulder, 256 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0256

Publications

1. "Geographic Concentration and Vertical Disintegration: Evidence from China." (with Yi Lu) Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65(3): 294-304.
2. "The Effect of Potential Foreign Entry in the Banking Sector." (with Jie Mao) Economics Bulletin, 2009, 29(1): 141-149.

Working papers

1. The Productivity of Unskilled Labor in Multinational Subsidiaries.
2. Happiness and Development (with Yi Lu).
3. Exclusive Exporting, Technology Transfer, and Firm Heterogeneity.

Teaching

• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Instructor, Fall 2009).
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Instructor, Fall 2008).
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Instructor, Summer 2008).
• Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications (TA, Summer 2007).
• Introduction to microeconomics (TA, Spring 2006).
• Introduction to microeconomics (TA, Fall 2005).