Shengwu LI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard since 2018. Among his editorial duties, he is the Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics .

He is specialised in economic theory and behavioural economics. In particular, he is interested in designing economic systems, in the presence of computational complexity, but that are nonetheless simple and transparent for human beings. His work has been awarded a number of prizes: the 2018 Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics, the 2018 Best Paper in Economics and Computation by the ACM Special Interest Group on e-Commerce, and the Aliprantis Prize in 2017 by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

Shengwu LI will present a paper, joint with Mohammad Akbarpour, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Michael Li, and Paul Milgromk, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:

Investment Incentives in Truthful Approximation Mechanisms (read paper)

More about Shengwu LI and his research

Date: MONDAY, September 26th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405

The next Departmental Seminar will host Rafael DIX-CARNEIRO (Duke University) on October 3rd.