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People often face environments where multiple models compete to explain the same observations. This paper examines how people update beliefs in such settings and how preferences over payoff-relevant states shape model selection and belief updating. This paper first develops a framework where preference-driven bias distorts the perceived model, affecting Bayesian and best-fit updating differently. In a laboratory experiment, most participants are classified as Bayesian updaters, who average across models, while a substantial minority are classified as best-fit updaters, who select the model that best fits the observed signal. Within-participant comparisons between the symmetric payoff and asymmetric payoff conditions indicate that asymmetric payoffs shift reported beliefs toward the preferred state, particularly among participants classified as best-fit updaters. Relative to symmetric payoffs, asymmetric payoffs increase the reported belief of the preferred state by about 8 percentage points among best-fit updaters, while the estimated effect among Bayesian updaters is close to zero. These findings help us better understand model-based learning and have implications for domains such as political polarization and financial investment, where competing narratives and strong preferences often coexist.

AI systems are becoming participants in the evaluation and use of scientific research. They encounter citation counts, download statistics and lists of popular articles developed around human readers, but the collective consequences of these signals for artificial readers remain uncertain. This paper adapts the Music Lab design to a market for academic attention. In the first experiment, 1,000 AI agents choose papers from the titles and abstracts of all 114 regular research articles published in the American Economic Review in 2025. The experiment has five independent-choice communities and five social-influence communities, each with 100 sequential agents. Only agents in the social-influence condition observe earlier selections within their community. Agents may select any number of papers. Social-information communities select 17.2 percent fewer papers per agent, concentrate their choices more heavily, and collectively cover 73 papers, compared with 90 independently. Between-community variation is greater under social information. In a second experiment with 200 agents across twenty social communities, randomly assigning papers five initial selections raises their subsequent selection rate by 45.55 percentage points (95% CI: 41.20 to 49.90). Choices have modest correspondence with external citations and little correspondence with download counts. The results show how a simple information rule shapes the volume, breadth and distribution of scientific attention in an artificial population.

We study a representative-agent Epstein-Zin economy with geometric dividends and a hidden finite-state Markov drift. We allow the price-dividend ratio to contain an additional positive, absolutely continuous valuation factor and, within the class $\mathfrak C$ defined below and under the regularity, admissibility, and positivity conditions of our main theorem, equilibrium forces this factor to be constant, yielding belief-Markovian prices. In the two-state case, under the stated positivity condition and strictly positive transition intensities, we prove existence, uniqueness, endpoint smoothness, interior analyticity, and uniform bounds for the positive solution of the pricing equation. For $0<\theta\leq1$, this solution supports an equilibrium under any continuous short rate satisfying the model's one-sided portfolio condition. Finally, in the two-state subregion $\eta>0$, we derive belief-dependent stock volatility, a European option-pricing PDE, and a leading short-maturity conditional risk-neutral log-return skewness expansion.

The pre-season strengths of European football clubs are usually measured by two proxies in the literature. Football Club Elo Ratings provide strictly performance-based Elo ratings from the early days of the European Cups, while Transfermarkt valuations are crowd-based estimates of squad market values. This paper compares them by evaluating their ability to forecast the results of matches played in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League between the seasons 2020/21 and 2024/25. The two indicators yield almost identical out-of-sample accuracy when used separately. Combining the two measures leads to a modest improvement, but the best aggregation procedure is sensitive to the forecast target. Our results suggest that seeding based on Elo ratings would be (closely) optimal.

Comparing two populations at the same physical covariate value requires more than conditional means or isolated target-point decisions: researchers may need evidence about an entire conditional-distribution ordering over a continuum, even when covariate margins differ. This paper makes that common-value comparison estimable under an explicit structure–flexibility tradeoff and turns the resulting surface into simultaneous evidence for first-order stochastic dominance. Population-specific margins map the common covariate value into each group, while a fitted copula-derivative representation links conditional distributions across the region. Uniform inference propagates uncertainty from both the margins and dependence model through a one-sided statistic with unknown binding locations. Under correct specification within a finite copula class, smoothness and trimming conditions, and a uniquely best candidate family, the procedure admits uniform control and consistent calibration. Simulations show increasing rejection as alternatives become more distinguishable, alongside model-selection sensitivity and small-sample size distortion. In a descriptive PSID application, the high–low parental-education comparison satisfies the two-direction criterion after multiplicity adjustment, whereas adjacent education-group comparisons remain inconclusive. The framework therefore supports region-wide distributional comparison while making its structural and inferential boundaries explicit.

This paper proposes discrete-time approximations to rough continuous-time models of realized variance (RV). The leading rough models can be viewed as autoregressive processes driven by fractional Gaussian noise. We show that the Wold representation of this noise concentrates its dependence at the first lag when the Hurst parameter is below one half. Augmenting the autoregressive (AR) and heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models with a first-order moving-average (MA(1)) component therefore approximates the roughness, and the MA coefficient maps almost linearly into the Hurst parameter. We refer to these extensions as the "rough" AR and "rough" HAR models. Estimating them on the log RV of ten ETFs, we find negative MA coefficients for every asset, and the implied Hurst parameters align closely with the estimates from the continuous-time models. In the HAR literature, the negative MA(1) component is a significant feature that has been largely overlooked. In out-of-sample comparisons, the "rough" models outperform their classical counterparts for nearly every asset and horizon, with the largest gains at short horizons, and their accuracy is comparable to that of the rough continuous-time models but much easier to estimate by standard off-the-shelf software.

Suppose an economy moves continuously along a closed path of fundamentals and returns exactly to its initial state. A regular Walrasian equilibrium price followed continuously along that path need not return to itself. For every number of commodities $L\ge3$, we construct a closed one-parameter family of pure-exchange economies in which all preferences are fixed, only three individual endowments vary, and aggregate resources remain constant. Along the loop, two regular equilibrium-price branches are exchanged while a third returns to itself; at the end, every economic primitive is exactly as it was initially. The construction uses at most $2L+2$ consumers. We also provide an exact realization with at most $2L$ consumers in which all endowments are fixed and only one preference varies; the two families generate identical aggregate excess demand. The key realization problem is parametric: classical aggregate-realization results guarantee an economy at each fixed parameter value, but not a continuous loop of realizing primitives. We construct such a loop explicitly. The resulting monodromy is structurally stable under sufficiently small $C^1$ perturbations. It is impossible with one or two commodities, making three commodities the sharp threshold. Thus local regularity guarantees local continuation but not a globally path-independent identity of an equilibrium branch, with implications for global comparative statics under multiplicity and for equilibrium selection based on continuation.

We estimate housing externalities in a high-density city, exploiting the staggered rollout of Singapore's nationwide Main Upgrading Programme for public housing. Controlling for nonrandom neighborhood exposure, we find that upgrading raises treated buildings' prices by 11.5% upon completion and neighboring buildings' resale prices by about 2% within 500 meters, decaying to zero beyond. A model with distance-decaying externalities shows that in dense settings spillovers justify the distortions of in-kind provision; this advantage diminishes and reverses at lower densities. Administrative data on over 2 million residents show that upgrading disproportionately retains older incumbents, suggesting age-specific amenities as an underexplored externality channel.

People increasingly compete against AI agents rather than other human opponents. We distinguish two channels: an opponent effect and an information effect. These are different elements with different consequences: the opponent effect is specific to a given computational system, the information effect a property of the information environment that an organisation or policymaker can control. We separate them in a preregistered experiment (N = 1,395) using a dynamic all-pay auction, a repeated contest in which escalation of commitment arises from the incentives. What participants are told about the opponent (human, an AI trained to imitate people, or an AI trained to compete well) is varied and crossed with who they actually face, in a deception-free design. What people are told influences escalation: the median price rises by 6.7 points when a human might be the opponent and falls by 8.8 when an optimising machine might be, a spread of about 15% of the prize value of the competition, produced by information alone. Competing against the AI agents lowers prices, yet reduces the chance that both sides finish with positive earnings, showing distinct effects of the opponent channel. The information effect is not explained by articulated strategy, or individual differences, and is consistent with a competitive response engaged when a human is a live possibility. This shows that describing an AI competitor is not behaviourally neutral.

This paper studies the practice of combining multiple outcomes into a summary index to estimate a causal effect. For common estimators and index constructions, the estimate equals a weighted sum of the estimated effects on the components, with weights that are implicit and rarely reported. The paper derives the weights and shows that, for inverse-covariance-weighted indices, they can be negative and unrestricted in magnitude, so the index effect can have the opposite sign to every component effect. The paper proposes two procedures for valid inference on the index effect: a variance estimator that accounts for the data-dependent weights, and a shifted t-test that requires no such correction. Conventional t-tests of the null of no effect remain valid. Contrary to common claims, summary indices do not generally improve power. Three published studies illustrate the results.

Many allocation rules give priority to applicants satisfying favored conditions, including disability, homelessness, and veteran status. Because these conditions are not directly observed, a rule ranking applicants by characteristics must first determine what submitted certificates prove. This paper studies allocation with hard but partial evidence: a disability document may prove disability without proving the absence of a disqualifying tenancy record. A claim is certifiable exactly when every intended claimant has a feasible certificate excluding all outsiders. Chain rules—scores, lexicographic orders, and scalar rankings—require certification of every priority cutoff, whereas reserve rules require certification of each eligibility class. Allocation rules thus select the claim family to be certified. When certification fails, canonical repairs demote unsupported chain priorities and delete unsupported reserve labels. Nonempty reserve eligibility classes can be represented as upper contours of a single chain if and only if they are nested. A housing application illustrates the consequences.

Consider an auction with buyers whose values depend on an underlying state (e.g., market fundamentals). How does the auction format shape the information that buyers' bids reveal about the state? We recast auctions as statistical experiments and compare different auction formats in terms of the (Lehmann) informativeness of the induced experiments. Our main finding is that among a large class of auctions (e.g., $k$th-price, all-pay), the first-price auction is the most informative. As a result, this auction guarantees the highest payoffs to a decision-maker who uses the information revealed by buyers' bids in a monotone decision problem (e.g., a prediction problem or the choice of a reserve price in a future auction).

We present several models of strategic choice concerning equilibrium reasoning and behaviour, as well as new applications to dynamic games. We propose concepts such as historical equilibrium, simple Nash equilibrium, cautious backward induction, and an approach inspired by how chess players reason in sequential games.

This paper develops a Poisson regression model with multivariate sample selection, in which the outcome is observed only when several potentially correlated selection conditions are satisfied. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Poisson sample selection model that allows for an arbitrary number of selection equations. We derive the conditional mean of the observed outcome under joint normality of the outcome and selection errors and obtain a multivariate selection-correction term. We prove identification of the model parameters and show that, under suitable support and rank conditions, the outcome parameters can be identified without an exclusion restriction. We also propose two-step estimation procedures based on nonlinear least squares and Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to apply PPML to a Poisson regression model with sample selection. The consistency of both estimators is established, and a robust two-step sandwich covariance matrix is proposed to account for the estimation error from the first-step selection model. In addition, factorial moments are used to recover the variance of the latent outcome error and the correlations between the outcome and selection errors. Monte Carlo simulations show that ignoring sample selection leads to persistent bias when the outcome and selection errors are correlated, while the proposed PPML estimator substantially reduces this bias and is more stable than nonlinear least squares, especially under moderate and strong selection dependence.

Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly drawing interest in the choice modelling (CM) field. The focus has primarily been on comparing the performance of these contrasting approaches or on improving behavioural insights for ML techniques, rather than translating ideas from one field into the other. In the present paper, we specifically focus on knowledge transfer from ML into CM in the context of model performance evaluation. In CM, model performance is typically evaluated using log-likelihood and related indicators, which are aggregate fit metrics that focus on overall fit. Conversely, in ML, the focus is on alternative-level misclassifications and correct classifications, which provide a more nuanced view of the results. To bridge these approaches, we explore the use of a probabilistic version of the confusion matrix, which reports the average probability of the model predicting each alternative, conditional on which alternative was observed to be chosen, across all choice tasks. This enables the computation of probabilistic ML metrics for both classic choice models and ML algorithms. We analyse model performance jointly in terms of overall fit and alternative-level predictions. Our findings demonstrate that models with similar log-likelihood can exhibit substantially different confusion matrices, revealing different probability patterns that aggregate metrics cannot capture. This framework identifies where models systematically `confuse' alternatives, highlighting trade-offs between alternatives, and potentially guiding model specification. Furthermore, evaluating these matrices and metrics out-of-sample reveals alternative-level prediction shifts that significantly impact forecasting performance.

We examine whether post-origin training information inflates the measured accuracy and economic value of financial forecasts. We evaluate five sets of financial time-series foundation models, each comprising independently trained annual vintages under U.S., global, and factor-augmented training environments, across 14 equity markets and four forecast horizons. Rolling comparisons vary the annual vintage for a fixed forecast; fixed-vintage comparisons hold the vintage fixed as target windows move across its training cutoff. Each alternative forecast is paired with an origin-aligned point-in-time (PIT) benchmark using identical numerical histories and inference protocols. In the U.S.-trained reference environment, post-origin vintages materially revise informative PIT forecasts but generally reduce accuracy in both designs. Pooled rolling comparisons yield higher mean squared forecast errors in 18 of 20 U.S. model-set-horizon combinations. The origin-crossing update also performs worse on average than an equally long pre-origin update. Under a common constrained allocation rule using one-month forecasts, median exposed-minus-PIT differences in annualized certainty-equivalent returns are -1.77 percentage points in the United States and -2.14 points internationally. Global and factor-augmented training produce more mixed predictive effects. An exact squared-error decomposition shows that revisions improve accuracy when their error-correcting benefit exceeds their mean squared magnitude; under U.S. training, alignment with PIT errors generally falls short of this requirement. Temporal exposure therefore establishes an information-set violation, not sufficient evidence of inflated predictive accuracy or investor value.

We examine semiparametric solutions to contamination bias for nonbinary treatments. Deepening the discussion by Goldsmith-Pinkham et al. (2024), we detail how spline functions approximate conditional expectation and propensity score functions under weak functional-form assumptions. Reanalyzing 18 regressions across 11 studies, we compare standard linear regressions against parametric and semiparametric versions of three contamination-robust estimators. We document large point-estimate discrepancies between parametric and semiparametric approaches and find that adopting flexible semiparametric solutions may not increase statistical uncertainty substantially. We recommend that researchers verify the robustness of their conclusions to the use of semiparametric tools that address contamination bias.

Organizations often invest substantial effort in improving internal mechanisms such as processes, governance, and technology, yet realize only modest performance gains. This paper proposes a structural explanation for this pattern. We introduce the concept of internal externalities: unpriced cross-effects generated by internal organizational mechanisms that act simultaneously on multiple objectives. When these effects oppose one another, effort cancels internally, limiting attainable performance even without incentive misalignment or informational constraints. We formalize this mechanism by modeling internal mechanisms as primitives that exert signed effects across performance objectives. This structure gives rise to internal conflict, a measurable property that captures the fraction of organizational activity lost to cancellation. We show that conflict constitutes a form of structural inefficiency that constrains the returns to effort and renders allocative optimization ineffective unless addressed first. The framework implies a natural sequencing of interventions, in which structural cleanup precedes effort reallocation and optimization. The analysis yields testable predictions and governance implications for how organizations should scale, constrain, redesign, or deprioritize internal mechanisms.

Structural similarity, the extent to which economic mechanisms respond alike to common shocks, matters for economic forecasting, policy transfer, and other decisions that rely on evidence from comparable settings. For mechanisms approximated by linear models, this idea has a simple geometric representation: The smaller the angle between their coefficient vectors, the more similarly they respond to the same shock. This paper introduces the cosine of this angle as a measure of structural similarity and develops the corresponding inference procedure. Applied to New Jersey's wage mechanism around the 1992 minimum-wage reform, the approach yields interesting evidence: Although the reform clearly affected the low-wage part of the wage distribution, the underlying mechanism linking worker characteristics to wages was no different from what would have prevailed without it.

The random-order interpretation of the Shapley value specifies both a terminal allocation and a payment path: each entrant is paid her marginal contribution at the time of entry. We embed this path in a finite dynamic entry problem in which a selected player may accept immediately or defer and allow another outsider to enter first. A flow is fully voluntary when immediate acceptance is optimal at every decision state. Although this criterion is defined through optimal continuation values, backward induction yields an equivalent system of linear inequalities in full-consent continuation values. The distinction between allocation and path is sharp in convex games: the Shapley allocation lies in the core, but the Shapley flow is fully voluntary only in additive games. Nevertheless, every efficient allocation admits a budget-balanced fully voluntary implementation when signed payments are available. We select a canonical implementation by minimizing distance from the Shapley flow, derive a reduced quadratic program for symmetric cardinality games, and study equal residual sharing, which selects the terminal allocation endogenously. With two player types, the selected allocation is an affine combination of the Shapley and equal-division allocations. Examples illustrate the effects of payment restrictions and a possible conflict between full voluntariness and coalitional stability.

I consider a neoclassical growth model with a constant absolute risk aversion (CARA) utility function and derive a global closed form approximation that is arbitrarily precise as the discount rate $\rho$ is close to the population growth rate $n$. I use it to show that the consumption function is strictly concave and that countries can have two different paths converging to the steady-state: front-loading and back-loading.

This paper develops inference for a Gaussian-nested hypergeometric family of distribution functions. The family \[ G_c(z) = \frac12 + z\,\frac{\Gamma(c-1/2)}{2\sqrt2\,\Gamma(c)}\,{}_1F_1\!\left(\frac12;c;-\frac{z^2}{2}\right),\quad c\ge\frac32, \] contains the standard normal distribution at the boundary $c=3/2$. Away from the boundary, the density has algebraic tail behaviour $g_c(z)\sim(c-3/2)|z|^{-3}$, so the parameter $c$ indexes a directed heavy-tailed deformation of the Gaussian law. The distribution also admits an equivalent beta-precision normal scale-mixture representation, in which the Gaussian boundary corresponds to degenerate unit precision. I establish the admissibility of the hypergeometric family, derive minimum-distance estimators, and obtain both regular interior asymptotics and nonstandard boundary asymptotics under the normal null. The standardised fit-improvement statistic converges to the mixture distribution $\tfrac12\delta_0+\tfrac12\chi_1^2$. I extend the theory to plug-in location-scale procedures, including a robust median/IQR version. Simulations document accurate null size and directed power against heavy-tailed alternatives. An application to daily S&P 500 returns, both unconditionally and after GARCH(1,1) filtering, illustrates the empirical implications for tail fitting and risk quantiles, and documents that GARCH filtering substantially reduces but does not eliminate the symmetric heavy-tailed departure detected by the test.

Recent crises have made supply security central to trade policy. We show how tradeable import certificates (TIC) implement targets for domestic production and reliable foreign supply while preserving gains from trade. A single certificate market per country decentralizes the welfare-maximizing allocation under heterogeneous targets, with certificate prices adjusting endogenously as conditions change. TIC robustly protect these targets against a range of deviations from trade agreements. A model of economic coercion microfounds the targets, linking them to shortage salience, supply reliability, bilateral trade dependence, and norms against yielding to coercion. Tariff-subsidy agreements require more information and are more vulnerable to hidden deviations. While a common carbon price provides a natural focal point for climate agreements, quantity-based security targets could be a more natural focal point for trade agreements than tariff and subsidy rates.

Economic networks are often estimated separately over two periods, and changes in their edge sets are interpreted as structural rewiring. Since both networks are estimated, observed turnover also reflects graph-selection error. We study the two-snapshot Hamming-turnover functional under a homogeneous edge-misclassification model. With known sensitivity and specificity and conditional independence of the estimated edge indicators across periods, latent turnover admits a closed-form unbiased adjustment based only on observed turnover and the two estimated graph sizes. We then examine the effects of sparsity, calibration error and dependence across periods. When the number of true links is proportional to $p$, a false-positive probability of order $p^{-1}$ generates expected spurious turnover of order $p$. An error of the same order in calibrating the false-positive probability can likewise leave order-$p$ bias after adjustment. We also derive the bias induced by cross-period dependence and give sufficient conditions for consistency relative to network size. Numerical results illustrate the finite-sample implications.

We provide the first polyhedral characterization of worker-quasi-stable matchings in the classical one-to-one matching model. By modifying the classical stability constraints, we introduce a convex polytope and prove that it is integral. Consequently, its extreme points coincide exactly with the incidence vectors of worker-quasi-stable matchings, demonstrating that worker-quasi-stability preserves the geometric tractability of standard stability.

Prediction-market shares differ from traditional financial products in that, with no information or outside utility, classical delta-neutral Central Limit Order Book~(CLOB) market making cannot be financed by payoff-uninformative noise flow. Transaction-level evidence from a major prediction-market CLOB platform shows makers profiting not from spread but from carrying an under-priced side to settlement — the empirical signature of behavioral tail demand rather than classical, randomized noise. We build this tail demand directly into the model and study an LMSR and a CLOB on the same event. A pre-shock CLOB quote inside the common-signal band is picked off; competitive quotes therefore screen informed traders out of the book. CLOB makers earn screening rent by carrying the under-priced side to resolution, while informed flow routes to the LMSR. The venues coexist: the CLOB supplies the tail-demand rent margin that lets the LMSR recover part of its loss to informed flow, and AMM depth moves the CLOB premium with a sign set by maker-side contestability—widening it where standing quotes can be undercut, compressing it where a committed maker carries the book. With three or more outcomes, binary-book CLOBs pin switch prices but leave implied beliefs indeterminate, whereas the LMSR prices the outcome simplex coherently and uses collateral more efficiently.

The von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms are uncontroversial desiderata for individual decision-making. We say that a bargaining solution is rational if it can be interpreted as the most preferred alternatives under these axioms. Yet, neither the Nash nor the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution is rational in this sense. We formalize two consequences of rationality, namely that one can neither be strictly better off nor strictly worse off from randomizing over different actions. These two axioms, together with other standard axioms, characterize the relative utilitarian bargaining solution. We then implement this bargaining solution in sub-game perfect equilibrium.

The axioms underlying Arrow's impossibility theorem are very restrictive in terms of what can be used when aggregating preferences. Social preferences may not depend on the menu nor on preferences over alternatives outside the menu. But context matters. So, we weaken these restrictions to allow for context to be included. The context, as we define, describes which alternatives in the menu and which preferences over alternatives outside the menu matter. We obtain unique representations. These are discussed in examples involving markets, the intertemporal well-being of an individual, and bargaining.

LLM-based GUI agents increasingly act on behalf of users in digital environments that were designed with human users in mind. These graphical user interfaces were designed to support, but also deliberately steer, the behaviour and decisions of users. While behavioural biases in the textual outputs of LLMs are well-documented, far less is known about how such influence operates when models act as agents that perceive interfaces and execute decisions—and, in particular, whether the reasoning capabilities increasingly built into these agents make them more robust to it. Drawing on Dual-Process Theory, we empirically investigate whether LLM-based GUI agents are susceptible to automatic (Type 1) and reflective (Type 2) digital nudges, and how their reasoning configuration moderates this susceptibility. In a randomized online shopping experiment with 3,600 agents and a total of 21,600 simulations across six frontier models from three providers, we found that agents were vulnerable to both nudge types. Crucially, the reasoning configuration moderated these effects in opposing directions, reducing susceptibility to automatic default nudges while heightening it to reflective social influence nudges. Extensive reasoning therefore did not make agents more robust but redirected the route through which choice architecture takes effect. Exploratory analysis further showed this redirection to be systematically structured by model scale. Beyond establishing nudge susceptibility as a behavioural property of agentic AI, the study positions interface design as a governance concern for organizations that delegate decisions to autonomous agents.

We ask how an expert panel should disclose auditable conflicts of interest when reports are named and experts care about their reputations for ability. Before sealed binary assessments are filed, an auditor commits to disclosing no orientation information, each named expert's orientation, or only the number of experts oriented in each direction; disclosure occurs after reports are locked. Holding reporting behaviour fixed, composition disclosure and individual attribution are exactly Blackwell-equivalent for learning the state at every finite panel size. Conditional on named reports remaining public, composition is minimal among state-lossless disclosures of orientations: every lossless public message must make the composition recoverable together with the reports. Incentives nevertheless differ sharply. In the large-panel limit near pooling, the local career returns to following evidence against one's orientation under attribution, secrecy, and composition disclosure stand in the ratio 1:4:5. On an open set of parameters, the two extreme regimes have only pooling within symmetric cutoff strategies, while composition disclosure admits a tremble-robust informative equilibrium. Near the lower boundary of this region, a sequence of composition equilibria is sparse—the evidence-following rate is of order 1/N—yet induces a nondegenerate state experiment. Anonymous disclosure can therefore preserve the information available under attribution while creating stronger incentives to produce it.