Shanjun Li

About

Shanjun Li is the Steven and Roberta Denning Global Sustainability Professor and a Senior Fellow at both the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). His research focuses on environmental and energy economics, urban and transportation economics, empirical industrial organization, and the Chinese economy. His recent work examines pressing sustainability challenges and the rapid rise of clean energy industries in China, exploring their global implications to inform evidence-based policymaking.

Research topics

• Economics
• Business
• Political Science
• Transport engineering
• Microeconomics
• Engineering
• Natural resource economics
• Environmental science
• Computer Science
• Finance

Selected publications

• A review on the powertrains and energy management strategies of electric tractors

  The Innovation Energy · 2024-12-31 · 7 citations

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  <p>Given the increasing demand for sustainable agricultural practices and energy conservation, advanced technologies for electric agricultural machinery (EAM) are critically needed. This paper provides a comprehensive review and analysis of powertrain systems and energy management strategies (EMSs) for electric tractors (ETs), a key representative of EAM. Specifically, this paper: (1) outlines the current development status and research significance of ET powertrains, including single-ener…

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• Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry

  American Economic Review · 2025-10-30 · 4 citations

  articleSenior author

  This paper studies the impact of quid pro quo (technology for market access) in facilitating knowledge spillovers and quality upgrading in the Chinese automobile industry. The identification strategy exploits within-product quality variation across a rich set of quality dimensions. We find affiliated domestic automakers adopt more similar quality strengths of their joint venture partners, consistent with knowledge spillovers. Additional analysis suggests worker flows and supplier networks mediat…

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• Industrial Policies and Innovation: Evidence from the Global Automobile Industry

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-11-01 · 4 citations

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  This paper examines the impact of industrial policies (IPs) on innovation in the global automobile industry.We compile the first comprehensive dataset linking global IPs with patent data related to the auto industry from 2008 to 2023.We document a major shift in policy focus: by 2022, nearly half of all IPs targeted electric vehicles (EV)-related sectors, up from almost none in 2008.In the meantime, there has been a clear technological transition from internal combustion engine (GV) technologies…

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• Design of the filling device for citrus seedling pot based on turnover box

  International journal of agricultural and biological engineering · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen access
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• An Underground Reservoir Resistivity Monitoring System for CO2 Reservoir Characterization

  2025-05-17

  article1st authorCorresponding

  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in deep subsurface is a promising way to slow the CO2 accumulation in atmospheric and marine and mitigate global climate change. The sequestrated CO2 needs to be safely stored underground for hundreds of years or longer. Monitoring the saturation of CO2 in subsurface reservoirs is crucial to prevent leakage. As is well known, reservoir resistivity is a key parameter used to compute the saturation of CO2, thus, monitoring the saturation of CO2 is to track changes…

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Frequent coauthors

• Panle Jia Barwick

  159 shared

• Shengmao Cao

  Kellogg's (Canada)

  76 shared

• Matthew E. Kahn

  56 shared

• Jing Wu

  The University of Texas at Austin

  56 shared

• Andrew Waxman

  54 shared

• Tianli Xia

  Tsinghua University

  52 shared

• Jerry Nickelsburg

  51 shared

• Yingfeng Yu

  Qingdao University

  39 shared

Labs

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