BEN GUANYI LI
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854.
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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
"Tariff Theories in a Trade War" (with Gary Lyn and Xing Xu)
- Current draft: [PDF]
- In theory, theory doesn’t matter; in practice, it should
"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)
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [PDF] | [LINK]
- 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 [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
"Multinational Production and Choice of Technologies"
- Economics Letters [LINK]
- Multinationals are biased, technologically
"Geographic Concentration and Vertical Disintegration" (with Yi Lu)
- Journal of Urban Economics [LINK]
- How about getting closer and buying more from each other
