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I hold the Professorship in Economics and Politics of China, jointly appointed by the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Humanities at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Prior to joining Göttingen, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim. I am affiliated with CESifo, CeMEAS, IZA, and ZEW. My research lies at the intersection of international trade, geoeconomics, environmental economics, and labor economics, with a particular focus on China’s role in the global economy. I mainly work on how international trade shapes economic activities and its distributional and environmental consequences. My current research agenda has three main pillars. First, I examine how geopolitical tensions shape firms' production, investment, and trade decisions, and how the policy shocks propagate through global value chains, especially in the context of 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 globalization and geopolitical tensions, including 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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