Stanford University

Benny Kleinman

Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. I am also a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. My research focuses on international trade, spatial economics, and macroeconomics.

You can find my CV here.

Benny Kleinman

Working Papers

Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Publications

Dynamic Effects of Trade with Ernest Liu and Stephen Redding · Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming NBER Working Paper
Accommodating Emerging Giants in the Global Economy with Zhuokai Huang, Ernest Liu, and Stephen Redding · IMF Economic Review, 2026, Special Issue for the 26th Annual Jacques Polak Conference of the IMF Published Version NBER Working Paper Online Appendix VoxEU

Teaching