Welcome! I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. I was previously a postdoc at Caltech and hold a PhD from Stanford.

I work on economic theory. My research interests include costly information acquisition/processing ("rational inattention"), mechanism and information design, and dynamic games and contracts. My current research focuses on (i) rational inattention in both single-agent and design settings and (ii) dynamic incentive problems with applications in macro and political economy.

I currently serve as an Associate Editor at the JEEA.

Here are my CV and Google Scholar. Feel free to reach out at abloedel@econ.ucla.edu.

Recent updates (October 2025):

• New paper: Modeling Information Acquisition via f-Divergence and Duality (with Tommaso Denti and Luciano Pomatto)