I have taken a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Economics. The information on this webpage is not being updated. My new webpage can be found at www.individual.utoronto.ca/econ_nickli
My papers
An Engel curve for Variety, Job Market Paper (2010)
Standard approaches to measuring the welfare gains from variety take variety as exogenous to consumers....
In Search of India's Missing Calories: Energy requirements and Calorie Consumption (with Shari Eli), Working Paper (2010)
Despite the large growth in real expenditure and positive calorie-expenditure elasticities, calories consumed per person...
International Prices, Costs and Markup Differences (with Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, and Chang-Tai Hsieh), American Economic Review (forthcoming) (2010)
Relative cross-border retail prices, in a common currency, comoves closely with the nominal exchange rate....