Dr Bingjing Li is Associate Director of the APEC Study Center in Hong Kong, as well as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Her main research fields are international trade and applied microeconomics. Her works focus on understanding how openness to trade interacts with development and political economy factors, using both micro data and quantitative models.

Dr Li obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 2016, MPhil in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2011, and BSocSc from CUHK in 2009. Before joining HKU, she worked at the National University of Singapore.

Representative Publications:

• "Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy.", with Davin Chor, Journal of International Economics, July 2024, 150:103926.
• "The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown.", with Filipe R. Campante and Davin Chor, Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2023, 21(5):1721-1771.
• "Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?", with Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi, American Economic Review, January 2023, 113(1):174-209.  
• "Migration, Transportation Infrastructure, and the Spatial Transmission of COVID-19 in China.", with Lin Ma, Journal of Urban Economics: Insights, January 2022, 127:103351.
• "Processing Trade and Costs of Incomplete Liberalization: The Case of China", with Loren Brandt and Peter M Morrow, Journal of International Economics, July 2021, 131:103453.
• "Grain Export and Causes of China's Great Famine: County-Level Evidence", with Hiroyuki Kasahara, Journal of Development Economics, September 2020, 146:102513.
• "Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China", with Matilde Bombardini, Journal of International Economics, July 2020, 125:103321.

Working Papers:

• "Migration Costs, Sorting, and Agricultural Productivity Gap.", with Qingen Gai, Naijia Guo, Qinghua Shi, and Xiaodong Zhu, Jan 2024.
  
• "Regional Trade Integration and Input Sourcing Patterns of Multinational Enterprise Plants: Evidence from the ECFA.", with Yuting Huang, May 2021