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Wioletta is Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Her main interests lie in applied game theory, political economy and economics of information. Her current research focuses on analyzing how legislative bargaining affects the nature and the efficiency of policies. She is also…
"Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization"
"Bargaining in the Shadow of Uncertainty"
Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a positive theory of this situation and shows when a small change in parameter values has a multiplier effect on exploitation. The multiplier…
What role do journalists and media owners play in slanting media content? In this paper, we open the black box of news production and investigate whether and how journalists themselves decide to bias the news and shield content production from owner influence. To do so, we build a novel dataset on hosts and guests in all French radio and…