news substantially reduce their coverage of politics. At the very same time, members of Congress become more likely to …

In a dynamic model of fiscal policy, social polarization provokes a deficit bias. Policy advisors have recently …

. In this paper we examine how in a two-party system polarization and political instability affectlearning through …. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, wedemonstrate that, when elections are exogenous, polarization between …

labor market risk, infuences the degree of polarization in the wealth distribution, as poor agents in particular save more …

resulting from the competing theories of polarization and diversification of opinions. Our overall findings support a … predominant diversification of opinions effect. When group members share all payoffs equally, this effect overcomes polarization … in 100% of the cases where outstanding individuals are risk averse, while group polarization appears to be more likely …

while others favor its continuation in stronger form. We offer an explanation of such polarization, based on a natural …

institutes, the extent to which intellectual competition between different schools of thought may lead to polarization of views …