Publications By Topic

Housing Financialization

Li, B., Aalbers, M., Kohl, S., & Chen, J. (2025). Managing overaccumulation: China’s new affordable rental housing programme and its financialization through REITs. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. PDF
Li, B. (2023). The Realization of Class-Monopoly Rents: Landlords’ Class Power and Its Impact on Tenants’ Housing Experiences. Journal of Urban Management. PDF
Qi, X., Chen, J., Lu, T., & Li, B. (2025). The financialization and de-financialization of rental housing in China: how the state’s governance capacity affects financialization. International Journal of Housing Policy. PDF

Kohl, S., Li, B., & Cui, C. (2025). Housing Segregation in Chinese Major Cities: A K-Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Longitudinal Big Data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. PDF
Li, B., Jansen, S. J., van der Heijden, H., Yan, J., & Boelhouwer, P. (2025). Promoting the Private Rented Sector in Metropolitan China: Key Challenges and Solutions. International Journal of Housing Policy. PDF

Li, B., Jansen, S. J., van der Heijden, H., Jin, C., & Boelhouwer, P. (2023). Understanding the Relationship between Residential Environment, Social Exclusion, and Life Satisfaction of Private Renters in Shenzhen. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. PDF
Li, B., Jin, C., Jansen, S. J., van der Heijden, H., & Boelhouwer, P. (2021). Residential Satisfaction of Private Tenants in China’s Superstar Cities: The Case of Shenzhen, China. Cities. PDF

Wen, J., Li, B., Jansen, S. J., van der Heijden, H. & Boelhouwer, P. (2026). Secondary cities as an optimal place to settle down in China? The role of housing, employment and amenities in recent migrants’ leaving intention across the urban hierarchy. Cities.PDF
Jin, C., Li, B., Jansen, S. J., Boumeester, H. J., & Boelhouwer, P. J. (2025). What drives young talents’ home-buying intentions? Evidence from China’s first-tier cities. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.PDF
Jin, C., Li, B., Jansen, S. J., Boumeester, H. J., & Boelhouwer, P. J. (2025). Young Talents’ Settlement Decisions in China’s Metropolises: An Integrated Prospect Theory Framework. Population, Space and Place. PDF
Jin, C., Li, B., Jansen, S. J., Boumeester, H. J., & Boelhouwer, P. J. (2023). Understanding the Housing Pathways and Migration Plans of Young Talents in Metropolises–A Case Study of Shenzhen. Housing, Theory and Society. PDF
Jin, C., Li, B., Jansen, S. J., Boumeester, H. J., & Boelhouwer, P. J. (2022). What Attracts Young Talents? Understanding the Migration Intention of University Students to First-tier Cities in China. Cities. PDF
Li, B., Jansen, S. J., van der Heijden, H., Jin, C., & Boelhouwer, P. (2022). Unraveling the determinants for private renting in metropolitan China: An application of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Habitat International. PDF

Liu, Z., Qian, Q., Li, B., Jin, C. & Visscher, H. (2025). Dutch Householders' Intentions to Adopt Shallow Geothermal Systems for Energy Transition of Existing Buildings: A Theory of Planned Behavior Approach. Energy & Buildings.PDF
Li, B., Xiang, P., Hu, M., Zhang, C., & Dong, L. (2017). The vulnerability of industrial symbiosis: A case study of Qijiang Industrial Park, China. Journal of Cleaner Production. PDF

Li, B. (2023). (Ben Ansell) Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them. Economic Sociology: Perspectives and Conversations PDF

Li, B., Kohl, S. (2025). Why Do Most Germans Rent? — The Political Economy of a “Renting-Oriented” Nation (为何大部分德国人租房？——”以租为主”国家的政治经济学逻辑). In Chinese. Published on WeChat Platform. PDF

Li, B., Kohl, S. The Fiscal-Property Nexus: Local Government Debt and Housing Market Resilience in China’s Real Estate Downturn. Working Paper.