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)
I document that rich households consume more varieties than poor households and show that this...
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....