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Economics
Research into economic systems, decisions, and policy.
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Economics
Research into economic systems, decisions, and policy.
When Favoring Unusual Answers Can Help Experts Tell the Truth
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- game theory
- reputational cheap talk
- expertise
Why Complex Industries May Favor Economies That Already Have a Head Start
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- economic complexity
- capability accumulation
- conditional convergence
Forecasting Construction Material Prices, One Category at a Time
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- construction material prices
- cost forecasting
- CSI MasterFormat
A model for sharing advertising audiences without sacrificing merchants’ baseline clicks
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- targeted advertising
- audience pooling
- customer poaching
When random choice adds ambiguity instead of reducing it
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- ambiguity perception
- decision theory
- ex ante randomization
A Financial Brain Scan for AI—and a Warning About Its Explanations
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- sparse autoencoders
- large language models
- financial interpretability
Building a synthetic control by spreading the weight
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- synthetic control
- policy evaluation
- counterfactual prediction
Where firms diversify may matter more than how many products they export
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- economic complexity
- firm growth
- export diversification
AI Job Ads Promise More Than Higher Pay—but the Benefits Vary
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- AI skills
- job advertisements
- wage premium
When a Learning Agent Becomes the Wrong Kind of Firm
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- reinforcement learning
- computational economics
- mean-field reinforcement learning
Sharing Prizes When Luck Is Hard to Predict
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- robust tournament design
- prize allocation
- incentives
When Does a Policy Begin? Rethinking Anticipation in Difference-in-Differences
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- difference-in-differences
- causal inference
- no anticipation
Q-learning firms can lock in high prices by never discovering that undercutting pays
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- algorithmic pricing
- Q-learning
- supracompetitive prices
Estimating economic bounds when sharper models become statistically fragile
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- partial identification
- linear programming
- econometrics
Finding optimal decisions when a model’s rules can jump
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- stochastic optimal control
- measurable coefficients
- Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation