Jing Li
Assistant Professor

Hello and welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Tufts University Department of Economics. My research interests are Industrial Organization and Environmental & Energy Economics.

Working Papers

Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
Revisions Requested (Second Round) American Economic Review (latest version 08/02/23)
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Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption (with Lucas Davis and Katalin Springel)
(latest version 03/2025, subsumes Energy Institute WP342)
NBER Working Paper #33591 | Ungated PDF | Survey Instrument

Work in Progress

Entry and Coordination in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Charging Industry (with Katalin Springel, slides available).

I Love That Dirty Water? Value of Water Quality at Recreation Sites (with Christopher Knittel and Xibo Wan).

Published and Accepted Papers

Colluding Against Environmental Regulation (with Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert).
Accepted, Review of Economic Studies (latest version 10/29/24)
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The Short-run and Long-run Effects of Covid-19 on Energy and the Environment
Joule 4: 1337-1349, 2020. (with Kenneth T. Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, Marten Ovaere, and Mar Reguant)
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Cost Pass-Through to Higher Ethanol Blends at the Pump: Evidence from Minnesota Gas Station Data
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 93: 1-19, 2019. (with James H. Stock)
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Teaching

MIT: "Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability" for MBAs and Undergraduates (MIT course codes 15.020 and 15.0201/14.43, respectively). Taught in Fall 2022, 2020, 2019, and Spring 2019.