Annie Liang
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Current Employment
Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, 2021-present
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy), Northwestern University, 2021-present
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Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 2016
S.B. in Mathematics and S.B. in Economics, M.I.T., 2011
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Past Employment
Assistant Professor of Economics, UPenn, 2017-2021
Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research, 2016-2017
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Fellowships and Grants
​Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2022
NSF CAREER Grant SES-2145352, 2022-2027
NSF Grant SES-1851629 (with Aislinn Bohren), 2019-2022
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Publications and Accepted Papers
How Flexible is that Functional Form? Measuring the Restrictiveness of Theories, conditionally accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023
(with Drew Fudenberg and Wayne Gao)
Data and Incentives, forthcoming at Theoretical Economics, 2023
(with Erik Madsen)
Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models, Journal of Political Economy, 2022
(with Drew Fudenberg, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information, Econometrica, 2022
(with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis)
Complementary Information and Learning Traps, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020
(with Xiaosheng Mu)
Predicting and Understanding Initial Play, American Economic Review, 2019
(with Drew Fudenberg)
Inference of Preference Heterogeneity from Choice Data, Journal of Economic Theory, 2019
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Working Papers
Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier, 2023
(with Jay Lu and Xiaosheng Mu)
The Transfer Performance of Economic Models, 2023
(with Isaiah Andrews, Drew Fudenberg, Lihua Lei, and Chaofeng Wu)
Games of Incomplete Information Played by Statisticians, 2021