6 papers
Monitoring Limits in DAO Governance: Capacity Breakpoints and Endogenous Concentration
Guy Tchuente
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are designed to disperse control, yet recent evidence shows that effective governance is often concentrated in a small number of parti…
Who Matters to Whom? Identifying Peer Effects with Propagation Geometry
Guy Tchuente
This paper develops a unifying theory of peer effects that treats the peer aggregator (the social norm mapping peers' actions into a scalar exposure) as the central behavioral prim…
Scale and Capacity Limits in Decentralized FDA Food-Safety Enforcement
Guy Tchuente
This paper asks whether regulatory monitoring exhibits nonlinear capacity limits as the scale and complexity of the regulated environment increase. Using a county--year panel of U.…
Distributional Instruments: Identification and Estimation with Quantile Least Squares
Rowan Cherodian, Guy Tchuente
We study instrumental-variable designs where policy reforms strongly shift the distribution of an endogenous variable but only weakly move its mean. We formalize this by introducin…
Too Big to Monitor? Network Scale and the Breakdown of Decentralized Monitoring
Guy Tchuente
Many public services are produced in networked systems where quality depends on local effort and on how higher-level authorities monitor providers. We develop a simple model in whi…
Religious Competition, Cultural Change, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Colombia
Hector Galindo-Silva, Guy Tchuente
We study how religious competition-defined as the entry of a religious organization with innovative worship practices into a predominantly Catholic municipality-affects domestic vi…