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I hold the Professorship in Economics and Politics of China at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, jointly appointed in the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Humanities. Prior to joining Göttingen, I was an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. I am affiliated with CESifo, CeMEAS, IZA, and ZEW. I received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University.
My research lies at the intersection of international trade, geoeconomics, environmental economics, and labor economics, with a focus on China’s role in the global economy. At the core of my research agenda is the question of how geopolitical tensions and government policies reshape economic activity and generate geopolitical, distributional, and environmental consequences. My research is organized around three main pillars. First, I examine how geopolitical tensions and the resulting geoeconomic policy responses—including industrial policy, tariffs, export controls, and sanctions—shape firms’ production, investment, innovation, and trade decisions and propagate through global value chains, particularly in US–China and EU–China economic relations. Second, I study the environmental consequences of international trade from a political economy perspective. Third, I analyze the labor market consequences of geopolitical tensions, globalization, and technological changes. My work in this area covers skill-biased technological change, college major choice, wage inequality, migration, and agglomeration. Contact Information: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany Email: lei [dot] li [at] uni-goettingen [dot] de News: I am co-organizing the 3rd Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR Conference on China in the Global Economy in Berlin on June 30 and July 1, with Andreas Fuchs, Holger Görg, Wan-Hsin Liu, Moritz Schularick, Christoph Trebesch, and Xiaohua Yu I am co-organizing the Lingnan-Göttingen Workshop in Hong Kong on April 10 with Larry Qiu I am co-organizing the 2nd workshop on International Economics in Times of Geoeconomic Challenges in Bad Homburg on June 8 and June 9, with Frank Pisch, Jan Schymik, and Robin Sogalla I am co-organizing the 2nd workshop on Globalization, Macroeconomics, and Development in Göttingen on July 2 and July3, with Andreas Fuchs, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Udo Kreickemeier and Xiaohua Yu |
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