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.
Contact
bennyk@stanford.edu □ Twittter @BennyKleinman □ Google Scholar
Call for Papers: JPE Macro-Chicago-Minneapolis Fed-Stanford Conference on The Long-Run Implications of Deglobalization
Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms
Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Intermediate Input Prices and the Labor Share, with Juanma Castro-Vincenzi
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World, with Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding, and Motohiro Yogo [Online Appendix] [VoxEU Article] [Becker Friedman Research Brief]
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review
The Geography of Innovative Firms, with Craig A. Chikis and Marta Prato [NBER Bulletin on Entrepreneurship]
Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation, with Pauline Carry and Elio Nimier-David
International Trade in an Uncertain World, with Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding, and David Xu
Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium, with Ernest Liu and Stephen Redding [Online Appendix] [Online Supplement] [Model Economy Toolkit]
Econometrica, March 2023 (lead article)
International Friends and Enemies, with Ernest Liu and Stephen Redding [Online Appendix] [LSE Business Review Article] [VoxEU Article] [VoxDEV Article] [Economist Free Exchange]
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2024
The Linear Algebra of Economic Geography Models, with Ernest Liu and Stephen Redding
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024
Accommodating Emerging Giants in the Global Economy, with Zhuokai Huang, Ernest Liu, and Stephen Redding [Online Appendix] [VoxEU Article]
IMF Economic Review, May 2026, Special Issue for the 26th Annual Jacques Polak Conference of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)