6 papers
The Division of Understanding: Specialization and Democratic Accountability
Giampaolo Bonomi
I develop a model in which occupational knowledge links the organization of production to democratic performance. In production, specialized knowledge allows workers to perform nar…
Team Disagreement and Productive Persuasion
Giampaolo Bonomi
We study how open disagreement influences team performance in a dynamic production game. Team members can hold different priors about the productivity of the available production t…
Disagreement Spillovers
Giampaolo Bonomi
Political messages increasingly bundle economic policy arguments with moral social policy stances. Using survey experiments with roughly 6,500 U.S. adults, I show that such bundlin…
Divide and Diverge: Political Competition and the Organization of Conflict
Giampaolo Bonomi
Why do politicians sharpen divisions when elections reward broad appeal? I model how two identical, office-motivated parties turn voter disagreement into partisan conflict. Electio…
The Disagreement Dividend
Giampaolo Bonomi
We study how disagreement influences team performance in a dynamic game with positive production externalities. Players can hold different views about the productivity of the avail…
Kites and Quails: Monetary Policy and Communication with Strategic Financial Markets
Giampaolo Bonomi, Ali Uppal
We propose a model to study the consequences of including financial stability among the central bank's objectives when market players are strategic, and surprises compromise their…