. Citizens with heterogeneous priors over a binary state of the world receive reports drawn from a continuous message space by a … the world, the other towards the alternative state of the world) by capturing the messages these sources convey. We … learning. We show that efforts to capture an information source are strategic substitutes: citizens' skepticism of messages …

reform. We use data from a panel of 276 Chinese cities and prefectures from 1988 to 2010. Our difference …

This paper studies the effect of social learning on political outcomes in a model of informative campaign advertising … information, on voters' learning about candidates running for office, and on the polarization of the electoral outcome. In …

learning is excessive, and a deadline on adopting the project is socially optimal in a wide range of settings …

learning and policy recommendation in advisory committees. We quantify the effectiveness of advisory panels, and evaluate …

endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (policy experimentation), future political competition …

endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (policy experimentation), future political competition …