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

How Do You Design an Auction When You Can't See the Bidders?
Source published
- robust mechanism design
- auction theory
- anonymous information

Good Predictions Are Not Enough: Testing What Economic Models and AI Rule Out
Source published
- economic models
- procedural restrictiveness
- empirical completeness

When a Lottery Can Make a Contest Work Harder
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- contest design
- economic theory
- lotteries

When an Unusual Answer Helps an Expert Be Heard
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- game theory
- reputational cheap talk
- expertise

Did practical know-how and theory help drive the Industrial Revolution?
Source published
- economic history
- Industrial Revolution
- knowledge spillovers

Why Complex Industries May Favor Economies With 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 protected-click option for sharing advertising audiences
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- targeted advertising
- audience pooling
- customer poaching

Why a better-fitting choice model may not make better forecasts
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- choice modelling
- mixture models
- mixed logit

When a coin toss adds ambiguity to a decision
Source published
- 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

Export diversification: not just how many products, but where
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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