Benny Kleinman
Welcome! I am an Economics Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. I study secular changes in the structure of the economy and their distributional implications using tools from the intersection of international trade, macroeconomics, and spatial economics. You can find my CV here.
Future appointments
▪ 2023-2024: Saieh Family Postdoctoral Fellow, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago
▪ 2024-2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University
▪ From 2025: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Contact
binyamin@princeton.edu □ Twittter @BennyKleinman □ Google Scholar
Research
Working Papers
Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms
Awarded Best Job Market Paper by the European Economic Association and Unicredit Foundation
Intermediate Input Prices and the Labor Share, with Juanma Castro-Vincenzi
Reject and resubmit, Econometrica
International Friends and Enemies, with Ernest Liu and Stephen Redding [Online Appendix] [LSE Business Review Article] [VoxEU Article] [VoxDEV Article] [Economist Free Exchange]
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World, with Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding, and Motohiro Yogo
Publications
Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium, with Ernest Liu and Stephen Redding [Online Appendix] [Online Supplement] [Model Economy Toolkit]
Econometrica, March 2023, Volume 91, Issue 2 (lead article)