Annie Liang
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Department of Economics (primary) and Department of Computer Science
My research is in economic theory (in particular, learning and information), and the application of machine learning methods for model building and evaluation. Prior to joining Northwestern, I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Evanston, Illinois 60208
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Publications
1. Complementary Information and Learning Traps, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 135 (1), Pages 389-448, February 2020 (with Xiaosheng Mu), at EC'18
2. Predicting and Understanding Initial Play, American Economic Review, Vol. 109 (12), Pages 4112-4141, December 2019 (with Drew Fudenberg), at EC'19 (plenary)
3. Inference of Preference Heterogeneity from Choice Data, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 179, Pages 275-311, January 2019 [code for paper]
Invited Surveys
4. Machine Learning for Evaluating and Improving Theories, SIGEcom Exchanges, Vol. 18 (1), Pages 4-11, 2020 (joint with Drew Fudenberg)
Working Papers
5. Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information, with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis (latest draft: April, 2020), Revise & Resubmit at Econometrica
6. How Flexible is that Functional Form? Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Theories, with Drew Fudenberg and Wayne Gao (latest draft: November, 2020)
7. Data and Incentives, joint with Erik Madsen (latest draft: January, 2020), at EC'20
8. Measuring the Completeness of Theories, joint with Drew Fudenberg, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan (latest draft: January, 2021), at EC'17
9. Games of Incomplete Information Played by Statisticians (latest draft: December, 2020)
10. Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition, joint with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis (latest draft: April, 2019), at EC'18