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Tenured Associate Professor
Zhimin Li
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: International Economics, Development Economics.
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0755-2603 0618
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zhimin.li@phbs.pku.edu.cn
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Office: Rm. 658, PHBS Building
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CV
Biography
Research Fields:
International Economics, Development Economics

Education:
University of California, Berkeley
     Ph.D., Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018    
            -- Concentration: International Economics, Development Economics
     M.S., Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2013
Yale University
     M.E.Sc., Environmental Economics, 2012
Shantou University
     B.S., Electrical Engineering,  2008
University of Virginia
     Semester at Sea Program (Spring), 2007
Journal Articles:
[1]  "The Agricultural Wage Gap Within Rural Villages" (with C. Baysan, M. Dar, K. Emerick, and E. Sadoulet), Journal of Development Economics168: 103270,2024.
[2]  “Property Rights and Firm Scope” (with T. Tong and M. Xu). Journal of Management, forthcoming.
[3]  “Local Effects of Global Capital Flows: A China Shock in the U.S. Housing Market” (with L. Shen and C. Zhang). Review of Financial Studies37: 761-801, 2024.
[4]  “Political Connections, Competition, and Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Chinese Firms” (with L. Cheng).  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 71: 819-862, 2023.
[5]  "Inferring Informal Risk-Sharing Regimes: Evidence from Rural Tanzania" (with E. Ligon), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 177: 941-955, 2020.
[6]  "What Do Private Firms Do after Losing Political Capital? Evidence from China" (with L. Cheng), Journal of Corporate Finance, 60: 101551, 2020.
[7]  "The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending on Structural Change: Evidence from Second World War Defense Contracts​" (with D. Koustas), Economics Letters, 178: 66-69, 2019.
Teaching Experience:
Peking University HSBC Business School
--International Economics.
--Advanced Macroeconomics II.
--Applied Microeconomics. 
--Research Methodology.

University of California at Berkeley
--Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Graduate Student Instructor.
--International Trade (undergraduate), Graduate Student Instructor.
--Development Economics (undergraduate), Graduate Student Instructor.

Stanford University
--Introduction to Economics, Lecturer, Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes in Singapore (Methodist Girls’ School), Summer.