3 papers
econ.TH2021
Rationally Inattentive Echo Chambers
Lin Hu, Anqi Li, Xu Tan
Rationally inattentive players allocate limited attention capacities to biased primary sources and to other players as secondary sources to acquire information about an uncertain s…
econ.TH2020
Electoral Accountability and Selection with Personalized Information Aggregation
Anqi Li, Lin Hu
We study a model of electoral accountability and selection whereby heterogeneous voters aggregate incumbent politician's performance data into personalized signals through paying l…
econ.GN2019
The Politics of Personalized News Aggregation
Lin Hu, Anqi Li, Ilya Segal
We study how personalized news aggregation for rationally inattentive voters (NARI) affects policy polarization and public opinion. In a two-candidate electoral competition model,…