Bo Li

Associate Professor

School of Economics, Peking University

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Tel: +86 15901041173

Office: 608, School of Economics, Peking University

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Intro

Education

  • PhD in Economics, Department of Economics, Stony Brook University, 2018
  • MS in Economics, School of Economics, Peking University, 2014
  • BS, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, 2010

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, School of Economics, Peking University, from 2024
  • Vice Chair of Department of Economics, School of Economics, Peking University, from 2019
  • Researcher, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, from 2020
  • Deputy Head of Research Center for Market Economy, Peking University, from 2022
  • Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University, 2018-2024

Research Fields

  • Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Computational Economics, Artificial Intelligence
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Publications


Working Papers

  • Forward Guidance and Fiscal Policy Coordination: Solving Stimulus When Inequality Matters. (with: Xiao Wang, Christian Payne Hennigan), R&R;
  • Emergence of General Equivalents with Deep Reinforcement Learning. (with: Yaodong Yang, Qinghao Wang, Peiyuan Zhang), ;
  • How Government Expenditure Redistributes Household Wealth in China: The Diverse Effects of Public Expenditure on the Housing Asset Value. (with: Ping Zhang, Xiao Wang), ;
  • Changes in Housing Markets and Spatial Sorting in the United States. (with: Juan Carlos Conesa);
  • Worker Relocation, Housing Markets, and the Distribution of Economic Shocks Across Locations. ;
  • The Cost of Rent and Purchase of Urban Housing and the Choice of New Citizens' Inflow. (in Chinese), (with: Xiao Wang, Daixin He), ;
  • A Study on the Sentiment of the Real Estate Market Based on Natural Language Processing Technology. work in progress;

Book

  • “Principles of Macroeconomics”, written by Bo Li, “Peking University Press”, 2023
  • "Economic Policy, Regional Development and Macroeconomics", written by Bo Li, "China Social Sciences Press", 2023

Research Projects

  • The Original Exploration Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Research on the Construction of Macroeconomic Models Based on Intelligent Algorithms and Agents and Their Application in Policy Evaluation" , 2025.1-2026.12, under research, Host
  • The Young Academic Leader Project of the Beijing Social Science Fund, "Research on the Theory and Policy of Artificial Intelligence and Regional Coordinated Development", under research, Host
  • Jinan Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Jinan City's "Preliminary Research on the 14th Five-Year Plan", sub-topic "Research on the Goals and Main Indicators of Jinan City's High-Quality Development During the '14th Five-Year Plan' Period" , 2019.7-2020.5, completed Conclude, principal investigator
  • Peking University Baidu Fund, 2020 Peking University Baidu Fund Frontier Cultivation Project, "Establishing an Artificial Multi-Agent Game Engine Linking Microeconomic Activities to Macroeconomic Goals," January 2021 - January 2022, completed, co-PI
  • Peking University - Lincoln Institute, 2020 Research Fund, "Design of Optimal Property Tax Reform," January 2021 - January 2022, ongoing, principal investigator
  • Peking University Capital High-End Think Tank 2021 Project, "Research on Building a Modern Industrial System and Optimizing Industrial Structure in the Capital - Based on the Perspective of Automation Potential," completed
  • Ministry of Finance Special Project, 2021, completed
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientist Fund Project, "Design of Optimal Property Tax Reform: A Quantitative Study Based on Heterogeneous Household Models," January 2023 - December 2025, ongoing, principal investigator
  • New Engineering Interdisciplinary Youth Project, "Emergence and Evolution of Currency Based on Multi-Agent Learning," June 2023
  • Peking University Open Project of the National Intelligent Social Governance Experimental Base in Donghu High-Tech Zone, "Research on Macroeconomic Theories, Algorithms, and Models Based on AI - Scenario Simulation in Donghu High-Tech Zone"

Other Projects

  • Hybrid Teaching Pilot Program Establishment, 2019 - 2020
  • Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project: Ideological and Political Education Design for the "Principles of Economics - Macroeconomics" Course, 2021
  • Peking University 2020 Planning Textbook Construction Project
  • Establishment of Peking University's "Graduate Education Innovation Program" Funding, 2021
  • Undergraduate Education Reform Project: Enterprise Course Management - Research on Team Management Using Feishu APP, 2022

  • Courses

    • Undergraduate Principles of Macroeconomics
    • Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence and Society
    • Graduate Mathematical Economics
    • Graduate Computational Economics

    Honor and Awards

    • Peking University Teaching Excellence Award, 2023
    • Peking University Outstanding Moral Education Award, 2021
    • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Scholarship - Excellence in Economics
    • Beijing Municipal High-Quality Teaching Materials and Courseware Award
    • Second Prize in Peking University Young Teachers' Basic Teaching Skills Competition
    • Peking University Outstanding Class Advisor
    • Marty Weinbaum Excellence in Research Award, 2018
    • Graduate Scholarship, Stony Brook University