Anqi Li | Economics | University of Waterloo

Anqi Li, in a red shirt in front of a tree

BEcon&Fin (University of Hong Kong); PhD (Stanford)

Areas of specialization

I have broad research interests in microeconomic theory. Topics I have worked on include: mechanism design, contract theory, political economy, social network, and boundedly rational learning. Rational inattention and its consequences for media, politics, and inequality are the focuses of my recent work.

Biography

I am an assistant professor of economics at University of Waterloo. Previously, I was an assistant professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis from 2013 to 2021, a visiting scholar at California Institute of Technology from 2021 to 2022, and a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 2022 to 2023. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and did my postdoc at University of Pennsylvania. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on economic theory.

Selected Publications

"The Politics of Personalized News Aggregation," (2023) Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 1(3): 463-505. Hu, Lin, Anqi Li, and Ilya Segal
"Electoral Accountability and Selection with Personalized Information Aggregation," (2023) Games and Economic Behavior, 140: 296-315. Hu, Lin, and Anqi Li
"A Rational Inattention Theory of Echo Chamber," (2023) In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’23), July 9-12, 2023, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. Hu, Lin, Anqi Li, and Xu Tan