About Bingjing Li
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:
- "The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown", with Filipe R Campante and Davin Chor, Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming.
- "Did US 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.
- "Export Expansion, Skill Acquisition and Industry Specialization: Evidence from China", Journal of International Economics, September 2018, 114:346-361.
- "Does Population Control Lead to Better Child Quality? Evidence from China's One-Child Policy Enforcement.", with Hongliang Zhang, Journal of Comparative Economics, May 2017, 45(2):246-260.
- "Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy.", with Davin Chor, September 2021.
- "Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap." with Qingen Gai, Naijia Guo, Qinghua Shi, and Xiaodong Zhu, Econometrica, Revise and Resubmit.
Working in Progress:
- "Import Competition and Innovation: Evidence from China.", with Matilde Bombardini and Ruoying Wang.
