Bingjing LI - HKU Business School

Dr. Bingjing LI

Economics

Associate Professor

3917 0019

bingjing@hku.hk

KK 905

https://sites.google.com/site/bingjingliecon/

Academic & Professional Qualification

Ph.D. in Economics, The University of British Columbia
M.Phil. in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B.Soc.Sc (First Class Honors) in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Biography

Dr. Bingjing Li is an 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 Ph.D. in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 2016, M.Phil. in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2011, and B.Soc.Sc. from CUHK in 2009. She joined the HKU Business School as an Associate Professor in 2021. Before joining HKU, she worked at the National University of Singapore.

Research Interest

International Trade
Political Economy
Labor Economics
Applied Econometrics

Selected Publications

“The Political Economy Consequences of China’s Export Slowdown.” (Filipe R. Campante and Davin Chor), Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming.
“Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?” (With Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi), American Economic Review, 113(1):174-209.
“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.

Recent Publications

6Jan

Dr. Bingjing LI

Did US Politicians Expect the China Shock?

Information sets, expectations, and preferences of politicians are fundamental, but unobserved determinants of their policy choices. Employing repeated votes in the US House of Representatives on China's normal trade relations (NTR) status during the two decades straddling China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession, we apply a moment inequality approach designed to deliver consistent estimates under weak informational assumptions on the information sets of members of Congress. This methodology offers a robust way to test hypotheses about what information politicians have at the time of their decision and to estimate the weight that constituents, ideology, and other factors have in policy making and voting.

6 Jan 2023

American Economic Review

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