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Troll Farms
Philipp Denter, Boris Ginzburg
We study how coordinated disinformation campaigns affect elections. We develop a constrained information design model in which a sender deploys uninformative messages that mimic vo…
econ.TH2024
Motivated Reasoning and the Political Economy of Climate Change Inaction
Philipp Denter
We study how motivated reasoning affects the provision of climate policy in an electoral competition framework. Voters experience anticipatory disutility when future outcomes appea…
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Truth, Lies, and Social Ties: When Image Concerns Fuel Fake News
Dana Sisak, Philipp Denter
We study how social image concerns shape information sharing among peers. Individuals receive a signal about a binary state with an observable direction and a veracity that can be…