Lei Fang
Research Economist and Associate Adviser
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Lei Fang is a research economist and associate adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Her research areas are macroeconomics, growth and development economics, and labor economics.
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Biography
Lei Fang is a research economist and associate adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Her research areas are macroeconomics, growth and development economics, and labor economics. She is an occasional contributor to the Atlanta Fed's Macroblog, which provides commentary on economic topics including monetary policy, macroeconomic developments, and the Southeast economy.
Before joining the Bank in 2008, Dr. Fang was a research assistant, teaching assistant, and instructor at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor's degree in economics from Beijing University in China, and her master's degree and doctorate in economics from Arizona State University.
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Publications
2019
Lei Fang and Berthold Herrendorf. "High-Skilled Services and Development in China." Working Paper 2019-21a. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. November 2019 (Revised June 2021).
2017
Robert Duval-Hernández, Lei Fang, and Rachel Ngai. "Taxes and Market Hours: The Role of Gender and Skill." Working Paper. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. September 2017.
2014
Lei Fang and Cara McDaniel. "Home Hours in the United States and Europe." Working Paper 2014-5. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. June 2014.
Lei Fang and Jun Nie. "Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market." Working Paper 2014-5. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. February 2014.
2012
Lei Fang and Guozhong Zhu. "Home Production Technology and Time Allocation: Empirics, Theory, and Implications." Working Paper 2012-19. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. December 2012.
Lei Fang and Pedro Silos. "Wages and Unemployment across Business Cycles: A High-Frequency Investigation." Working Paper 2012-16. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. October 2012.
2011
El-hadj Bah and Lei Fang. "Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa." Working Paper 2011-14. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. November 2011.
2010
Lei Fang. "Entry Costs, Financial Friction, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and TFP." Working Paper 2010-16a. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. September 2010.
2009
Lei Fang. "Entry Barriers, Competition, and Technology Adoption." Working Paper 2009-8. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. March 2009.
Lei Fang and Richard Rogerson. "Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis." Working Paper 2009-7. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. March 2009.
Articles
2021
"High-skilled Services and Development in China" with Berthold Herrendorf, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 151, June 2021, Article no. 102671.
2017
"Time Allocation and Home Production Technology," with Guozhong Zhu, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 78, May 2017, Pages 88–101.
2016
"Entry Barriers, Competition, and Technology Adoption." Economic Inquiry. September 2016.
"Home Hours in the United States and Europe," with Cara McDaniel. B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics. July 2016.
"Entry Cost, Financial Friction, and Cross-country Differences in Income and TFP" with El-hadj Bah. Macroeconomic Dynamics. 2016, vol. 20(4), pages 884–908.
2015
"Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa," with El-hadj Bah. Journal of Development Economics. 2015, vol. 114(C), pages 159–71.
2011
"Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis," with Richard Rogerson. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 3(2), pages 163–88, April 2011.
2009
"Policy Analysis in a Matching Model with Intensive and Extensive Margins," with Richard Rogerson. 2009, International Economic Review, vol 50–4.