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Strategic Influencers and the Shaping of Beliefs

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Influencers, from propagandists to sellers, expend vast resources targeting agents who amplify their message through word‐of‐mouth communication. While agents differ in network position, they also differ in their bias: Agents may naturally read articles with a particular slant or buy products from a certain seller.
Akhil Vohra
wiley   +1 more source

The futures of digital democracy. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Fuchs C, Museba J, Friesch K.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad, Dominik Naeher, Sebastian Vollmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered non-contestation: Deterring electoral contestation using violence in local elections. [PDF]

J Peace Res
Das N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore, Antonella Seddone, Daniela R. Piccio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Cryptocurrency in sport: a thematic review. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Zhou X, Tao Y, Huang L, Tian H, Liu H, Zhang X, Yin M, Wang Z, Li H.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does the All‐Star Award Affect Chinese Analysts' Performance? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design and the Field Le prix All‐Star influence‐t‐il le rendement des analystes chinois ? Données probantes issues d'une régression sur discontinuité et du terrain

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of the All‐Star award on the performance of Chinese financial analysts. Leveraging unique voting data from 2007 to 2016 and a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we find that the All‐Star award significantly enhances recipients' fundamental analysis. Awarded analysts issue more accurate earnings forecasts, and
Congcong Li, Shaokun Li, Hai Lu
wiley   +1 more source

Inferential collective self-knowledge. [PDF]

Asian J Philos
Schwengerer L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Is State Tax Policy Associated With State‐Level COVID‐19 Restrictions? La politique fiscale des États est‐elle associée aux restrictions introduites pendant la crise de COVID‐19 ?

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the COVID‐19 pandemic, states imposed restrictions intended to slow the spread of the virus. We investigate whether states' reliance on consumption tax revenue, relative to other tax revenue sources, is associated with the duration of COVID‐19 mobility restrictions.
Nathan C. Goldman, Stephen J. Lusch, Luke Watson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source