We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n … behavioral manipulation. We establish that AI benefits consumers when glossiness is short-lived. In contrast, when glossiness is … long-lived, users suffer because of behavioral manipulation. Finally, as the number of products increases, the platform can …

We propose a novel, risk-based transmission mechanism for the effects of currency manipulation: policies that …

dataset of buyout and venture funds, we test for the presence of reported return manipulation. We find evidence that some … unlikely to raise a next fund, suggesting that investors see through much of the manipulation. In contrast, we find that top …

- the Regents Examinations - led to the systematic manipulation of test sores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Our … manipulation in aggregate due to the greater density of these students near the proficiency cutoffs. Exploiting a series of reforms … that eliminated score manipulation, we find that inflating a student's score to fall just above a cutoff increases his or …

survey-based experiment obtained during a period of government manipulation of inflation statistics in Argentina (2006 …

Recent scandals over the manipulation of LIBOR, foreign exchange benchmarks, and other financial benchmarks have … strategic splitting of trades, we show that the best linear unbiased fixing is the commonly used volume-weighted average price …

unemployment and other social problems, however, the Mezzogiorno is distinguished by pervasive manipulation of standardized test … classes increase score manipulation. Estimates of a causal model for achievement with two endogenous variables, class size and … score manipulation, suggest that the effects of class size on measured achievement are driven entirely by the relationship …