Anqi Li is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo since 2023. Prior to joining Waterloo, she was Assistant Professor at Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL) from 2013 to 2021, a Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 2021 to 2022, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 2022 to 2023. She holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and did postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.

She has broad research interests in microeconomic theory. Topics of her work include: mechanism design, contract theory, political economy, and social network. Her most recent work focuses on rational inattention and its consequences for media, politics, and inequality. 

Anqi Li's website

She will present a paper, joint with Federico Echenique, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:

Career Concerns with Costly Agent Assessment and Misspecified Learning: Theory and Applications (read abstract)

The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Utku ÜNVER (Boston College) on May 5th.