how diverse types of evidence combine with causal hypotheses to generate empirically based causal theories—a cumulative … explain the basic evidence on its temporal and spatial distribution. Economics could beneficially learn from the natural …

of providing the information necessary to improve them. This Working Paper provides evidence regarding the impact of the …

A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to accept a request by presenting evidence. A persuasion rule specifies what … evidence is persuasive. This paper compares static and dynamic rules. We present a single linear program (i) whose solution …

We study a seller's optimal mechanism for maximizing revenue when a buyer may present evidence relevant to her value … mechanism to be deterministic--hence akin to classic third degree price discrimination--independently of non-evidence … characteristics. We also find another sufficient condition depending on both evidence and valuations, whose content is that evidence …