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110 papers in econ.TH · page 1
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Proportional liability rules guide agents to efficient shock paths
Efficient liability assignment under shock propagation
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Metric-space protocol lets communities self-amend constitutions in polynomial time
Constitutional Governance in Metric Spaces
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One rule unifies voting, proposals and constitutional amendment in metric spaces
Constitutional Governance in Metric Spaces
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Extended SBA adds two-layer architecture for strategic scenarios
Extended Scenario Bundle Analysis: A Formal Framework for Strategic Scenario Modeling
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Signal precision can lower screening accuracy when high
Pitfall of Precision in Noisy Signaling
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Equilibrium understanding transfers across analogous mechanisms
Strategically Analogous Mechanisms
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CVaR breaks standard persuasion reduction yet yields polynomial LP
Bayesian Persuasion with a Risk-Conscious Receiver
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Nash product rule limits manipulation gain to factor of 2
Approximate Strategyproofness in Approval-based Budget Division
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More AI can lower productivity via skill and reliability feedback
Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of Skill, Effort, and AI Assistance
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Large developer commits to high housing supply to end coordination failure
Coordination Failures and Stackelberg Leadership in Housing Development with Network Effects
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Repeated voting incurs sublinear welfare cost for fairness
The Price of Proportional Representation in Temporal Voting
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Equilibrium in NeuroAI stabilizes neural
A Theory of Multilevel Interactive Equilibrium in NeuroAI
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This paper introduces two new stability measures for Bayesian decisions under prior…
Robust Bayes Acts under Prior Perturbations: Contamination, Stability, and Selection Paths
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Inequality in job search effort lowers matching rates
The Matching Function: A Unified Look into the Black Box
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Non-CARA preferences leave prices only partially revealing
On the Possibility of Informationally Inefficient Markets Without Noise
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Deleting actions shifts equilibria that price tweaks leave stuck
Changing the Game: Status-Quo Inertia, Institutional Design, and Equilibrium Transition
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Secret messages with deniability reveal only state cutoffs
Secret Communication with Plausible Deniability
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Only one rule aggregates multiple Elo ratings while obeying three consistency axioms
Aggregating Elo Ratings: An Axiomatization
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Non-affine approvals force miscalibration in all proper scoring rules
The Endogeneity of Miscalibration: Impossibility and Escape in Scored Reporting
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Money burning clears aggregate NTU matchings at fixed prices
Aggregate Stable Matching with Money Burning
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Partial statistics disclosure expands implementable game outcomes
Coordination Mechanisms with Partially Specified Probabilities
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Pensions increase births but reduce child mental-health investments
Mental Health and Human Capital Composition in a Dynastic OLG Model with PAYG Pensions
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Response times identify average preferences from single anonymous choices
Response Time Enhances Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences
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Folk theorem for LLMs sustains any rational outcome as ε-equilibrium
Sustaining Cooperation in Populations Guided by AI: A Folk Theorem for LLMs
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EFX fails even for symmetric submodular valuations with three agents
Counterexamples to EFX for Submodular and Subadditive Valuations
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Method yields undominated ex ante stable school lotteries
A Simple Method for School Choice Lotteries
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Counterfactual utilities satisfy vNM axioms on potential outcomes
An Axiomatic Foundation for Decisions with Counterfactual Utility
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Full correlation neutralizes attacker edge in multi-surface AI security
The Adversarial Discount - AI, Signal Correlation, and the Cybersecurity Arms Race
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Public messages match or beat private ones in group approvals
Going Public: Communication in Collective Decisions
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Delegation conserves credit capacity in pseudonymous lending
Unsecured Lending via Delegated Underwriting
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Uncountably many inaccessible decisions exist in every finite probability space
Uncountably many conditionally inaccessible decisions exist in every finite probability space
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Large effective commodity counts stabilize all equilibria
Equilibrium Stability and Uniqueness with a Large Number of Commodities and Patient Consumers
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Truthful networks form as precision-sorted cliques
Truthful Communication and Exclusive Information Clubs
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Agents form precision-sorted truthful cliques that may not optimize welfare
Truthful Communication and Exclusive Information Clubs
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Peer pressure evolves to sustain misspecified beliefs
Misspecified beliefs and the evolution of peer pressure
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The paper defines two new classes of causal models for decision-making agents: Structural…
The Design and Composition of Structural Causal Decision Processes
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Heterogeneity explains stochastic transitivity failures without added complexity
Is Complexity the Problem? Testing Random Choice with Heterogeneity
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Power forms balance equity and productivity in health evaluations
Integrating equity and productivity in health evaluation
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VCG job matching is firm-rational only under weak substitutes
Strategy-proof and Efficient Job Matching with Participation Constraints
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Beliefs guarantee non-empty cores in symmetric partition games
Partition function form games with probabilistic beliefs
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Depth D limits excess loss to O(M/√D) in sequential binary classification
Networked Information Aggregation for Binary Classification
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Unique contract adverse selection reduces to stochastic target control
Principal-agent problems with adverse selection: A stochastic target problem formulation
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Kantians neutralize Nash free-riding via strategy rescaling
Strategy Rescaling and the Stability of Kantian Optimization
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Minimizing average coalitional gains yields optimal-time equilibria
Computing Equilibrium beyond Unilateral Deviation
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Nash equilibria with three or more randomizers are generically improvable
Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation
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Finite stable matching results transfer to large economies
Many-to-many stable matching in large economies
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Three measures of choice difficulty prove unrelated
Measuring Choice Difficulty
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Extreme rules strategy-proof only on single-peaked tree domains
A simple characterization of single-peaked domains
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Dynamic no-feedback games let senders reach partial-commitment payoffs
Dynamic Cheap Talk without Feedback
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Sequential equilibrium defined for infinite games with continuous information
Sequential Equilibria in a Class of Infinite Extensive Form Games