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Economics
Research into economic systems, decisions, and policy.
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Economics
Research into economic systems, decisions, and policy.

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

The w-value: A Market-Based Rule for Sharing Pollution-Control Gains
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- w-value
- pollution control
- cooperative game theory

Finding optimal decisions when a model’s rules can jump
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- stochastic optimal control
- measurable coefficients
- Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation

When Dynamic Panel Regressions Misread Treatment Effects
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- causal inference
- dynamic panel data
- heterogeneous treatment effects

When peer pressure changes who people identify with
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- social identity
- peer effects
- social networks

Keeping spillover-affected countries in synthetic controls
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- synthetic control
- causal inference
- spillover effects

When volatility cannot separate economic shocks
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- structural vector autoregression
- heteroskedasticity
- partial identification