6 papers
The Division of Understanding: Specialization and Democratic Accountability
Giampaolo Bonomi
This paper studies how the organization of production shapes democratic accountability. I propose a model in which learning economies make specialization productively efficient: mo…
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…
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…
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…