Kexin Feng (冯可馨)
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I am an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of economic history, development, and international economics. I am a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Economic Growth Center. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Caltech in June 2025.
My research uses historical settings to understand how cross-border economic activities shape the diffusion of knowledge and ideas, technological change, and industrial development in developing economies. My paper “Foreign Investment and the Long Road to Development” examines how foreign direct investment facilitates knowledge diffusion and, in turn, shapes domestic industrial production. My paper “Foreign Trade and Industrialization” examines how foreign trade shapes the market incentives facing domestic producers and, in turn, affects regional industrialization. [CV] [Research][Teaching] |