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First-best climate policy is a uniform carbon tax which gradually rises over time. Civil servants have complicated climate policy to expand bureaucracies, politicians to create rents. Environmentalists have exaggerated climate change to gain influence, other activists have joined the climate bandwagon. Opponents to cli…

2016-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Back cover text: Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multibillion-dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and b…

2013-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The Chain-of-Decision approach improves forecasting of financial professionals' trading decisions.

problem Challenges in forecasting professionals' behaviors, especially in trading decisions.
method Integrates an opinion-generator-in-the-loop to provide subjective analysis based on news items.
result Promising improvements in the proposed tasks' performance.

Politicians world-wide frequently promise a better life for their citizens. We find that the probability that a country will increase its {\it per capita} GDP ({\it gdp}) rank within a decade follows an exponential distribution with decay constant λ=0.12λ= 0.12. We use the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and the Global …

2012-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows impersonators generate fake engagement on Instagram.

problem Impersonators exploit Instagram for fake engagement.
method Examined three communities (Politician, News agency, Sports star) on Instagram, collected data on 4.8K comments and 2.6K likes from 3.8K impersonators over 7 months.
result Impersonators generate significant fake engagement on verified accounts.

Current economic theories miss most of economic dynamics.

problem Accuracy of economic theories and policies depend on economic variables and processes.
method Identify and analyze overlooked economic variables and processes.
result Many economic variables and processes not accounted for in current theories.

BERT models can classify multilingual party manifestos across different dimensions.

problem Costly manual annotation of large corpora in social science.
method Domain transfer across geographical locations, languages, time, and genre using fine-tuned transformer models.
result BERT models can be applied to future data with similar performance.