Dr. Ming Li, PhD
- Professor, Economics
- CIREQ research fellow
- CIRANO research fellow
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Sign in to editResearch areas: game theory; microeconomics; political economics
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Biography
Education
PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Fields of specialization
microeconomics; game theory; information economics; political economics
Research interests
strategic information transmission; persuasion; game theoretical models of elections and political processes
Professional experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University (July 2004-June 2009).
Publications
“When does coordination require centralization? The roles of organizational inertia and diversity,”
joint with Hitoshi Sadakane, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
“An experimental investigation of persuasion through selective disclosure of evidence,”
joint with Arianna Degan and Huan Xie, November 2023, 56(4), Canadian Journal of Economics.
"On the paradox of mediocracy,"
joint with Qiang Fu and Xue Qiao, 2022, 31(2), 492-521, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
"Persuasion with costly precision,"
joint with Arianna Degan, 2021, 72(3): 869-908, Economic Theory.
"Ambiguous persuasion,"
joint with Dorian Beauchêne and Jian Li, January 2019, 179, 312-365, Journal of Economic Theory.
"Persuasion of a privately informed receiver,"
joint with Anton Kolotilin, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and Andriy Zapechelnyuk, November 2017, 85(6), 1949-1964, Econometrica.
“Psychologically-Based Voting with Uncertainty,”
with Arianna Degan, forthcoming, European Journal of Political Economy–Special Issue on Behavioural Political Economy, Volume 40, Part B, December 2015, 242–259.
“Reputation-concerned policy makers and institutional status quo bias,”
with Qiang Fu, 2014, 110, 15-25, Journal of Public Economics.
“Advice from Multiple Experts: A Comparison of Simultaneous, Sequential, and Hierarchical Communication,”
2010, 10 (1), 22 pages, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Topics), Article 18.
“A Psychologically-Based Model of Voter Turnout,”
with Dipjyoti Majumdar, 2010, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12(5), pages 979-1002, October.
“When Mandatory Disclosure Hurts: Expert Advice and Conflicting Interests,”
with Kristof Madarasz, 2008, 139(1), 47-74, Journal of Economic Theory.
Teaching activities
ECON 695J
Topics in microeconomics--communication, persuasion, and political economics
ECON 613
Microeconomics II
ECON 425/525
Mathematics for economists
ECON 461/561
Industrial organization
Participation activities
Conference organization
(Virtual) seminar series on information economics and experiments
Canadian Public Economics Group Annual Conference 2022 (at CIRANO)
Workshop on communication and persuasion (2018, 2017)
Canadian Economic Theory Conference (CETC) 2022, 2013