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[2606.00972] Designing entry-monotone risk-sharing pools
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.00972: Designing entry-monotone risk-sharing pools
[2606.01018] Self-Duality and Transfer in Voting Games
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.01018: Self-Duality and Transfer in Voting Games
[2606.02306] Delusions of Grandeur and Their Benefits (and Hazards)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.02306: Delusions of Grandeur and Their Benefits (and Hazards)
[2606.02362] Endogenous Fertility Waves and the Dynamics of Utility in an Overlapping Generations Model
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.02362: Endogenous Fertility Waves and the Dynamics of Utility in an Overlapping Generations Model
[2606.02503] Pay Beliefs and the Amenity-Pay Tradeoff
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.02503: Pay Beliefs and the Amenity-Pay Tradeoff
[2511.19627] Total Factor Productivity and its determinants: an analysis of the relationship at firm level through unsupervised learning techniques
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2511.19627: Total Factor Productivity and its determinants: an analysis of the relationship at firm level through unsupervised lea...
Socialism Kills
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The High Cost of Infinite Search: How AI Agents Break Travel Economics
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Monday assorted links
1. Progress Ireland. 2. Some new results on tatonnement? 3. The new Paul McCartney album is his best since the 2004 Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. Here i...
[2605.31072] Comparing Market Mechanism Efficiencies
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.31072: Comparing Market Mechanism Efficiencies
[2605.30916] Welfare, Improvability, and Variance: A Principal-Agent Approach to Optimal Benchmark Item Aggregation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30916: Welfare, Improvability, and Variance: A Principal-Agent Approach to Optimal Benchmark Item Aggregation
[2605.30493] The Markup falsification Adaptative Set
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30493: The Markup falsification Adaptative Set
[2605.30515] Obviously Strategy-proof Choice of Social Acts
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30515: Obviously Strategy-proof Choice of Social Acts
Industrial Policy between Rentierisation and Retaliation
Industrial policy, once a taboo in mainstream economics, is being mainstreamed by the very institutions that spent four decades stigmatising it. In March 2026, ...
The Big Problem With Economics Is Macroeconomics
The great Warren Brookes (1928-1991) joked in The Economy In Mind about the return of an economist from overseas, and a quip from a U.S. Passport official about...
Are we undermeasuring inflation for lower earners?
We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have simil...
[2505.06846] Utility Maximization Under Endogenous Uncertainty
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.06846: Utility Maximization Under Endogenous Uncertainty
[2605.28985] Subsidizing Sequential Search
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28985: Subsidizing Sequential Search
[2605.29238] Graph Neural Networks for Generalized Mundlak Estimator under Network Confounding
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29238: Graph Neural Networks for Generalized Mundlak Estimator under Network Confounding
[2605.29361] The Empirical Content of Revealed Preference in High Dimensions
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29361: The Empirical Content of Revealed Preference in High Dimensions
[2605.29832] Count Your Losses, and Cut Your Blessings: Reference Dependence across Intertemporal and Uncompensated Labor Supply
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29832: Count Your Losses, and Cut Your Blessings: Reference Dependence across Intertemporal and Uncompensated Labor Supply
Why Is Economic Inequality the Status Quo?
The latest PSPI issue examines the political psychology of economic inequality and highlights the cognitive processes that sustain high levels of inequality acr...
The Public Goods Circular Argument
Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state