About
I am Hanzhe Li (李韩哲, pronounced similarly to /liː hɑːn dʒɜː/; ), a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Hong Kong. Since 2025, I have also been a research associate at the HKU Centre for AI, Management and Organization (CAMO).
Before joining HKU, I earned an M.Phil. in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a bachelor's degree in Economics, with a minor in Mathematics, from Nanjing University. I was also an exchange student at the University of Queensland (Spring 2018) and a visiting PhD student at Northwestern University (Fall 2024) and the University of Chicago (Fall 2025).
My research focuses on organizational economics, with applications to the economics of AI and political economy. My work primarily uses models of dynamic games and information economics.
Selected Publications
View All ->Attribution and Persuasion: The Paradox of Interpretable AI
Hanzhe Li, Jin Li, Ye Luo, Xiaowei Zhang
Accepted, Management Science
How does AI persuade a decision maker who must attribute disagreement to multiple possible reasons? Can less interpretable AI actually improve human-AI collaboration?
Transparency and Policymaking with Endogenous Information Provision
Hanzhe Li
The RAND Journal of Economics
How do politicians' reputation concerns shape persuasion by a biased lobbyist, and what are the welfare consequences of different transparency regimes?
News
Our paper "Attribution and Persuasion: The Paradox of Interpretable AI" was accepted for publication in Management Science.
Presented at the 2026 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Hong Kong.