Hello, welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor of economics at Boston College. My fields of interest include international trade, development economics, and economic geography.
Email: benli36 [at] gmail [dot] com
Voice: 1-617-552-4517
Office: 462K, Maloney Hall
Email: benli36 [at] gmail [dot] com
Voice: 1-617-552-4517
Office: 462K, Maloney Hall
Publications
♦ Geographic Concentration and Vertical Disintegration: Evidence from China, Journal of Urban Economics, 2009 (with Yi Lu)
♦ Multinational Production and Choice of Technologies, Economics Letters, 2010.
Other Publications
♦ China's Foreign Trade: Perspectives from the Past 150 Years, The World Economy, 2011 (with Wolfgang Keller and Carol H. Shiue). Older version: NBER Working Paper 16550. [link] [a short introduction in VOX]
Working papers
♦ Cross-Border Production, Technology Transfer, and the Choice of Partner.♦ Heterogeneous Productivity, (Less) Heterogeneous Fixed Trade Costs, and Export Decisions (with Luis Castro and Yiqing Xie).
♦ Multinational Enterprises and Endogenous Agent Skill Upgrading (with Yibei Liu and James R. Markusen).
♦ Nationalism and International Trade: Theory and Evidence (with Xiaohuan Lan).
Teaching
International Trade (2012)International Trade Theory (Ph.D. field course, 2011)
Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (2008, 2009)
(TA) Introduction to Statistics (2007)
(TA) Introduction to Microeconomics (2005, 2006)