Most Cited Papers Chair of Economics and Politics of China Office hours: by appointment
Publications
Prof. Lei Li, Ph.D.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
JOURNAL ARTICLES IN CHINESE
BOOK CHAPTERS
WORKING PAPERS
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Contact
Prof. Lei Li Ph.D
Faculty of Business and Economics
Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14
Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Office: KWZ 0.705
Tel. +49 621 181-1911
lei.li@uni-goettingen.de
The End of Cheap Chinese Labor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(4), 57–74 (with Hongbin Li, Binzhen Wu, and Yanyan Xiong).
2026
The Impact of Low-carbon Pilots Policy on Health, Journal of Comparative Economics, with Hong Cao, Liyan Han, Libo Yin, and Peng Yin, 2026.
2025
Skill-Biased Imports, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Allocation of Talent, Journal of International Economics, with Jingting Fan, 2025. Young Economist Award, FIW International Economics Conference 2021.
2022
China’s Skill-Biased Imports, China Economic Review, 2022, with Hongbin Li and Hong Ma, vol. 74, August 2022.
2016
Exogenous Shocks and the Spillover Effects between Uncertainty and Oil Price, Energy Economics, 2016, with Libo Yin and Yimin Zhou, vol. 54, pages 224-234.
2015
Do Foreign Institutional Investors Stabilize the Capital Market? Economics Letters, 2015, with Liyan Han, Libo Yin, and Qingqing Zheng, vol. 136, pages 73-75.
2012
The End of Cheap Chinese Labor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, with Hongbin Li, Binzhen Wu, and Yanyan Xiong, vol. 26(4), pages 57-74.
2014
Family Structure and Puzzle of U-Shaped Age Saving Profile, Economic Research Journal 经济研究, 2014, joint with Binzhen Wu.
2013
Value Investing or Value Creating? A Comparative Study between Foreign and Domestic Institutional Investors, China Economic Quarterly 经济学季刊, 2013, joint with Liyan Han.
2011
Migration Cost and Labor Shortage, Chinese Social Sciences Today 中国社会科学报, 2011, joint with Hongbin Li.
2010
Model Improvements and Empirical Research for Prediction of Small and Medium-Sized Companies in the Stock Market, Journal of Quantitative and Technical Economics 数量经济技术经济研究, 2010, joint with Liyan Han.
2018
Understanding Regional Export Growth in China, In: Yan Ing, Lili; Yu, Miaojie, 2018. World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment. London: Routledge, 195-228, with David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson.
Trade and Labor
Defensive Innovation: Technological Rivalry and College Major Choice, with Xiaohua Bao, Qin Chen, Zibin Huang, and Mengyuan Wang.
Trade, Environment, and Political Economy
Trade, Trees, and Health, with Xinming Du and Eric Zou. Annual Best Paper Award, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute 2025.
When Growth Stumbles, Pollute? Trade War, Environmental Enforcement, and Pollution, with Xinming Du. R&R Economic Journal.
Importing Pollution? The Health Consequences of Garbage Imports, with Hong Cao, Liyan Han, Li Wan, Libo Yin, and Peng Yin.
Who Pay for the Pollution Fees? Tax Transmission along the Value Chain, with Ying Li, Zhi Su, and Libo Yin.
Trade Disputes and Firm Responses
Supply Chain Uncertainty and Firm Value: The Propagation of Geopolitical Risk, with Zhengwen Liu, Libo Yin, and Zhenliang Zhao.
Trade War, Market Structure, and Firm Value, with Man Lu and Libo Yin.
Trade Policy and the Geography of Global Production, with Harald Fadinger, Sophia Praetorius, and Jan Schymik.
Trade Protectionism and Firm Value: Tracing the Impact of Rules of Origin along the Supply Chain, with Libo Yin and Haocen Zhao.
Trade Diversion and Leaky Siege: How Sanctions Fail to Fully Bite, with Xinyu Liu and Libo Yin.
How Trade Protectionism Backfires: Industrial Policy and Innovation, with Jingtian Li and Libo Yin.
Trade Diversion: The Case of Photovoltaic Industry, with Xueying Ren and Libo Yin.
Diversification or Specialization? The Responses of Multi-Product Exporters to Quota Removal, with Ruxue Bai, Ying Li, and Libo Yin.
Trade, Network, and Agglomeration
Export-Induced Spatial Concentration, with Jonas Casper and Jinfeng Luo.
Clustering as a Shield: Mitigating the Negative Effects of the US-China Trade War, with Liyan Han, Ying Li, and Jinfeng Luo.
Short Letter, Enduring Bond: The Role of Migration Network in Facilitating Trade, with Jing Nie and Libo Yin.
2025 & 2026
CEPR-Kiel-Göttingen China Conference in 2025 & 2026, Berlin.
2025 & 2026
Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization, Macroeconomics, and Development in 2025 & 2026, Göttingen.
2026
International Economics in Times of Geoeconomics Changes in 2026, Bad Homburg.
2023
CRC Workshop on Trade, Firms, and Economic Development in 2023, Bad Homburg.
2021
CRC Workshop on Global Value Chain and Trade Policy in 2021, Mannheim.
2026
CEPR Climate Change and the Environment Symposium, Switzerland; CEPR-Kiel-Göttingen China Conference, Berlin; CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, Munich; Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization, Göttingen; Lingnan-Göttingen Workshop, HK; 27th Göttinger International Trade Workshop, Göttingen; World Trade Dialogue, Hamburg; International Economics in Times of Geoeconomics Changes, Bad Homburg; ARENA, Castellon, Spain.
2025
Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus; IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics Applied and Behavioral Perspectives, Bonn; Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR China Conference, Berlin; 6th Heidelberg-Tübingen-Hohenheim (HeiTüHo) Workshop on International Financial Markets; Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization, Göttingen; Chinese Rural Economy, Hangzhou; ZEW-virtual RA Day, online.
2024
ERWIT, Munich; Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR Conference on China in the Global Economy, Berlin; 3rd Conference on Trade, Value Chains and Financial Linkages in the Global Economy, Rome; 3rd Global Economic Networks (GEN) Workshop, Tübingen; 3rd Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics, Berlin, discussant; Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation IO Day, Mannheim; Annual Conference of Chinese European Society for Environment, Ecology, and Sustainability, online; ZEW Public Finance Conference, Mannheim.
2023
Workshop on Trade, Firms, and Economic Development, Bad Homburg; CRC TR 224 Retreat, Offbach; Göttinger International Trade Workshop, Göttingen; Annual Conference of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation, Mannheim; Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation IO Day, Mannheim; ZEW Public Finance Conference.
2022
Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus; FIW Workshop on Firms and Workers in the Global Economy, Linz; Nordic International Trade Seminars, NOITS, Stavanger; Workshop in International Economics, Zurich; Tilburg Growth, Trade and International Finance Conference, Tilburg; Workshop on Shaping Globalization, Mainz; Bayreuth Trade & IO Workshop 2022, Bayreuth; CRC TR 224 Conference, Mainz; Workshop on International Economic Networks, WIEN, Vienna; Tsinghua Alumni Workshop, online; Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation IO Day, MACCI, Mannheim; Göttinger International Trade Workshop, Göttingen; Conference on US-China Trade Disputes and Globalization, online; Nanjing University-Chinese Economy Workshop, online; CRC TR 224 Workshop for Young Researchers, Bonn; CRC TR 224 Workshop for Young Researchers, Mannheim.
2021
Workshop in International Economics, St. Gallen; Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2021 Conference, AASLE, online; Asia Impact Evaluation Conference, online; CRC TR 224 Conference, Mainz; Conference on US-China Trade Disputes and Globalization, online; CRC TR 224 Workshop for Young Researchers, online; Workshop on Labor Market, Technology and Globalization, Mannheim; Trade Policy and GVC Workshop, Mannheim; FIW Conference-International Economics, online; 13th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, online; MaCCI IO Day, online; JGU Mainz Workshop on Shaping Globalization, online; Tsinghua Alumni Workshop, online.
2020
Chinese Economy Research Workshop, Shanghai; 22th Göttinger International Trade Workshop, Göttingen; CRC TR 224 Conference, online; EALE SOLE AASLE World Conference, online; GSCE Chinese Economy Workshop, online; Mannheim Workshop on Globalization, Technology and Labor Markets, online.
2019
CRC TR 224 Conference, Montabaur, discussant; Workshop on Trade Policy and Firm Performance, Bad Homburg, discussant; Workshop on Globalisation and Structural Change, Maastricht; Workshop on Urban Economics, Zurich, poster.
2018
European Association of Labour Economists, EALE, Lyon; European Research Workshop in International Trade, ERWIT, St. Gallen, poster; European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, EWMES, Naples; Sinergia Workshop, St. Gallen; XIVth Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus.
2017
European Association of Labour Economists, EALE, St. Gallen; Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and European Meeting of the Econometric Society, EEA-EMES, Lisbon; Society of Labor Economists, SOLE, Raleigh; Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, SSES, Lausanne.
2016
ILO/IZA/Renmin/UCW Workshop on the Chinese Labor Market in Transition, Beijing; SNF Sinergia Workshop, Stoos.
2015
Workshop on the Industrial Development and the Labor Market of China, Beijing; 12th Chinese Finance Annual Meeting, Beijing; CEC Workshop, Beijing.