Deputy division chief at the Development Macroeconomics Division of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

I was an assistant professor at the Economics Department of the Ohio State University in 2007-2011, and served as an Associate Editor of IMF Economic Review during 2016-2022. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2007, after earning a B.S. from the Peking University in Beijing China in 2001.

Primary fields: International Economics, Trade, Business Cycles, Economic Growth, Innovation

Recent research interests: Productivity, Firm innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, Services trade, Micro-level data.

All views expressed on this site are my own and do not necessarily reflect the position of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management. 

Email: nli at IMF.org

Office Address: 700 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20431, USA