To introduce a novel generalization of economies of scope, the paper develops a theory of average cost reductions based on enabling products to have multiple features or functions. The process is labelled economies of score. Focusing production costs on the details of product features can lead...

This is an online appendix for the paper 'Does Opening Complaints Data Change Company and Consumer Behavior? Evidence from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau'.The abstract for the main paper is available here: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2929790' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2929790

I analyze a technological change which improved the public monitoring of financial customer treatment. This major assessment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is based on its exposing credit card-related complaints online while keeping mortgage-related complaints concealed. Exposed...

I introduce and solve a class of information asymmetries problems in which agents have uncoordinated perspectives of objective information. I first present a new primitive of literal personal perspective frames: coordinate systems through which agents view phenomena based on their subjective...

I model economists as being themselves behavioral, and not fully rational in how they implement their research. I characterize research results as a network graph of data analyses at the level of human-computer interactions that contain graph copies whenever the economist manifests behavioral...

The paper highlights causal inference based on econometric measurement in real-time data environments. Each state has a probability of being realized in real-time. We define state selection bias as arising when real-time environments are ignored. We model indicator variables as measurements that...

This paper investigates how citizens from developing countries vocalize controversial topics, combining the behavioral economics of development with human-computer interaction for potentially mutual benefit across fields. I examine a priming effort to understand how people decide to discuss...