Ben Guanyi Li (李冠一)
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
"Google and China's Trade" (with Cui Hu)
- Current draft: [PDF]
- Google is gone in presence, but present in trade
"Reduced-form Trade Retaliation" (with Gary Lyn and Xing Xu)
- New draft coming soon!
- In fact, we rely on just a sliver of structure...
"Corrupt Political Figures and Corrupt GDP Figures" (with Yushan Hu and Penglong Zhang)
- Current draft: Available upon request
- Corruption corrupts GDP, literally.
"Trump, China, and the Republicans" (with Yi Lu, Pasquale Sgro, and Xing Xu)
"Territory Flows and Trade Flows between 1870 and 2008" (with Yushan Hu and Penglong Zhang)
"Extreme Weather and Long-term Health" (with Wang-sheng Lee)
- Journal of Health Economics [LINK]
- Dusty data from two millennia of Chinese elites
"HIV Infections and Nightlight Luminosity" (with Pratibha Gautam)
- Economics Letters [LINK]
- "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 [LINK]
- Is economic knowledge produced in an economically efficient way?
"Alphabetic Norm and Research Output" (with Ang Li)
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [LINK]
- 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 [LINK]
- "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 [LINK]
- Products have life cycles (Raymond Vernon), and so do their production processes
"The Economics of Nationalism" (with Xiaohuan Lan)
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [LINK]
- 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 [LINK]
- Universal gravitation applies to Shanghai as well as to the solar system