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 07/2025, 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
Review of Economic Studies April 28th, 2025. (with Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert)
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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.