Weihong Li

PhD Candidate in Economics @SMU | Alum @UWMadison | Mongolian music lover | Interests: environment, development, political.

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

Thrilled to share that I spoke at AERE 2025 Summer Conference! Big thanks to the organizers and everyone who joined the session.🌟 Your presence made it special!

- via #Whova event app
https://t.co/0Y49BneLmh

[NBER @nberpubs]

Reviewing a decade of advances in spatial dynamic modeling, with applications to trade, climate, migration, infrastructure investment, structural change, and policy, from @klausvanieper and Fernando Parro https://t.co/K5bmIGVonQ

[SMU Economics @SMUEconDept]

🤩SMU REUNION AT SEA🐎

It was a pleasure to get together at the SEA in Washington D.C. with economics faculty, current, and former students from SMU.

We are proud of this network of talented researchers doing exciting work!

[Ömer Özak @OmerOzakEcon]

#EconTwitter I am organizing some sessions on Comparative Development, Cultural Economics, Political Economy, Gender, and Economic Growth at #SEA2024 in DC. If you have a paper you think would fit, fill out this form.

https://t.co/KaqIVpNAni

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

@TravisWhitacre @YaleSPH @SMUEconDept @IsabelKitschelt Congratulations!

[NBER @nberpubs]

How geography shapes nations: a quantitative framework based on minimizing transportation costs and fitting European borders over the past 1000 years, from @treballen https://t.co/LEUoRNDZN7

[NBER @nberpubs]

Societies pray for rain more in places where the chance of rainfall rises in a drought, so that praying for rain appears to work, from José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado, and Nicholas Ryan https://t.co/3d9LrrATYZ

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

@invariance Congratulations!

[Klaus Desmet @klausvanieper]

A unilateral carbon tax can be globally welfare-improving upon impact. Work together with @HansbergRossi and @brunoconteleite.
@SMUEconDept @smuresearch

[SMU Economics @SMUEconDept]

Check out the lates @nberpubs WP by @klausvanieper and co-authors

"On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes"

https://t.co/TQhIeLA8QD

[Klaus Desmet @klausvanieper]

Thank you all for joining us
@SMUEconDept for Midwest Macro, Some pics of last night’s plenary of @HansbergRossi. And thanks to @SposiMichael, @elpuntoderocio and all other local organizers, including our grad students and our friends at the Dallas Fed.

[Ömer Özak @OmerOzakEcon]

Celebrating with our new PHD candidates ⁦@IgnacioPenagos⁩ ⁦@RylieLiang⁩ ⁦@weihong_li⁩ ⁦@TravisWhitacre⁩ with ⁦@klausvanieper⁩ ⁦@SMUEconDept⁩

[SMU Economics @SMUEconDept]

Check out the latest working paper by Profs. @klausvanieper & @OmerOzakEcon & co-author on the economic and cultural/ethnic origins of subnational political instability!

#PonyUp

[SMU Economics @SMUEconDept]

Check out the latest research by Prof. @SposiMichael now appearing as the lead article in the current issue of J Monetary Economics. Paper is entitled:

"Demographics and the evolution of global imbalances"

https://t.co/eTL0KxChPK

A brief🧵...

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

@DingLiu14 好可爱的小公主

[SMU Economics @SMUEconDept]

Prof. Klaus Desmet (@klausvanieper) will be speaking on March 1 as part of the @SMU @SMUDCII Godbey Lecture Series.

His talk is entitled "David Ricardo in Today’s World: Supply Chain Problems, Climate Change, and the Backlash Against Globalization"

https://t.co/lAk3mrzxfm

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

…and I did a great job eating it

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

@OmerOzakEcon did a great job slicing the cake😎

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

@SMUEconDept And I was completely hidden by William🤣

[Weihong Li @weihong_li]

@TravisWhitacre @SMU Did you have a try? 🤣 @TravisWhitacre @IgnacioPenagos @RylieLiang