Dr. Ming Li, PhD

Professor, Economics
CIREQ research fellow
CIRANO research fellow

Research areas: game theory; microeconomics; political economics

Contact information

Email:

ming.li@concordia.ca

Websites:

Personal website
Google Scholar
ResearchGate

ORCID:

0000-0002-6857-8314

CV:

View Ming Li's CV

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

"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

Workshop in memory of Art Shneyerov

CIREQ Montreal Economic Theory Conference (2014, 2013)