3 papers
econ.GN2026
The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitigate AI's Impact on Inequality
Matthew O. Jackson, Zafer Kanik
We examine the economic impact of increasingly productive AI and policies that spread its benefits across the economy. Improvements in AI productivity trigger labor reallocation an…
econ.GN2026
Strategic Expression, Popularity Traps, and Welfare in Social Media
Zafer Kanik, Zaruhi Hakobyan
Social media platforms systematically reward popularity over authenticity, incentivizing users to strategically tailor their expression for attention. In this paper, we introduce (…
econ.GN2026
The R&D Productivity Puzzle: Innovation Networks with Heterogeneous Firms
M. Sadra Heydari, Zafer Kanik, Santiago Montoya-Blandón
We introduce heterogeneous R&D productivities into an endogenous R&D network formation model, generalizing the framework of Goyal and Moraga-González (2001). Heterogeneous product…