From the 2 of 26 linked papers with an AI index.
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Defensive Pessimism: Growth, Culture, and the Survival of Evidence
Georgy Lukyanov
Successful systems standardize, but standardization can eliminate the living alternatives by which failure would later be recognized. I study a growing credit economy in which safe…
Effort without Evidence
Georgy Lukyanov
Actions determine not only payoffs but what can be learned. I study communication across successive decision makers when hidden effort governs public evidence and a sender motivate…
Self-Employment as a Signal: Career Concerns with Hidden Firm Performance
Georgy Lukyanov, Konstantin Popov, Shubh Lashkery
The paper models a labor market where risk‑averse workers know their own talent and choose between risky self‑employment that generates public outcomes and firm employment that hid…
Two Motives for Verification in Information Cascades
Darina Cheredina, Georgy Lukyanov
The paper studies a sequential social learning model where agents can pay for a publicly observed investigation that may conclusively confirm a state and provide a discovery reward…
Designing Silence: Peer Feedback under Reputational Concerns
Georgy Lukyanov
How should an organization control what its experts learn from one another between a first opinion and a final one? We study a platform that collects two independent binary forecas…
Contrarian Incentives and Costly Social Learning
Georgy Lukyanov, Vasilii Ivanik
We study sequential social learning when agents pay a fixed cost for private information and prefer less popular actions. Actions taken without new information leave beliefs unchan…