Reducing the impact of misinformation has become a challenge for many social media companies. This paper provides a model to investigate the spread of misinformation in a group chat social media network and how it affects users’ opinions on a public issue. In this model, misinformation...

We study the agency problem between a firm and its research employees. In a multi-agent contracting setting, we show explicitly the way in which the optimal incentive regime is a function of how agents' efforts interact with one another: relative-performance evaluation is used when their efforts...