Ben Guanyi Li
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854
- Phone: 978 934 2767
- Email: benli36 dot gmail dot com
- Office: HSS 461
Papers
"A Linear Model of Geopolitics" (with Penglong Zhang)
- Current draft: [PDF]
- Endogenous trade, endogenous borders, and endogenous politics
"Trade Retaliation and Import Prices" (with Gary Lyn and Xing Xu)
- Current draft: [PDF]
- Who, which, how, and how much
"Trump, China, and the Republicans" (with Yi Lu, Pasquale Sgro, and Xing Xu)
- Scandinavian Journal of Economics [PDF]
- This long story is as short as 64 pages
"Territory Flows and Trade Flows between 1870 and 2008" (with Yushan Hu and Penglong Zhang)
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [PDF]
- Goods flow so territories need not, achieving global peace and security
"Extreme Weather and Long-term Health" (with Wang-sheng Lee)
- Journal of Health Economics
- Dusty data from two millennia of Chinese elites
"HIV Infections and Nightlight Luminosity" (with Pratibha Gautam)
- Economics Letters
- "So shines a good deed in a weary world!" (Shakespeare, 1600)
"The Production Economics of the Economics Production" (with Yushan Hu)
- Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
- Is economic knowledge produced in an economically efficient way?
"Alphabetic Norm and Research Output" (with Ang Li)
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Ang Li and Ben Li explain why economists use alphabetic author orders
"Lexicographic Bias in International Trade" (with Hua Cheng and Cui Hu)
- Journal of International Economics
- "Buy your apples from Abraham Aardvark" (Marginal Revolution)
- Find Abraham's apples in the appended structural model
"The Production Life Cycle" (with Yibei Liu)
- Scandinavian Journal of Economics
- Products have life cycles (Raymond Vernon), and so do their production processes
"The Economics of Nationalism" (with Xiaohuan Lan)
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- Nationalism is a trade cost problem. Let us convince you, theoretically and empirically
"Shanghai's Trade, China's Growth" (with Wolfgang Keller and Carol Shiue)
- IMF Economic Review
- Universal gravitation applies to Shanghai as well as to the solar system
"Multinational Production and Choice of Technologies"
- Economics Letters
- Multinationals are biased, technologically
"Geographic Concentration and Vertical Disintegration" (with Yi Lu)
- Journal of Urban Economics
- How about getting closer and buying more from each other