Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market (papers.ssrn.com)
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Long-Range Subjective-Probability Forecasts of Slow-Motion Variables in World Politics: Exploring Limits on Expert Judgment (papers.ssrn.com)
Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital (papers.ssrn.com)
Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....
Paper: Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law (papers.ssrn.com)
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but really, what scientist wouldn't want an autocomplete can opener as their manager (papers.ssrn.com)
Return-to-Office Mandates (papers.ssrn.com)
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Return to Office Mandates Paper from University of Pittsburgh (papers.ssrn.com)
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Forecasting Long-Run Causal Effects (papers.ssrn.com)
Randomized controlled trials (RCT) are the gold standard in causal inference and are often used by decision-makers in public and private sectors. However, RCTs are often expensive and take a long time to complete, making predicting its effects prior to completion practically important. In this paper, we test the forecasting...
A Multitemporal Snapshot of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Israel-Gaza Conflict (papers.ssrn.com)
Close the Gates to an Inhuman Future: How and why we should choose to not develop superhuman general-purpose AI - Anthony Aguirre, Future of Life Institute. (papers.ssrn.com)
Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium (papers.ssrn.com)
Quote “In this paper we study Privacy Pools, a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol. We discuss the pros and cons of this protocol, and show how it could be employed to create a separating equilibrium between honest and dishonest users. The core idea of the proposal is to allow users to publish a...
Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (pre-print) (papers.ssrn.com)
Rubbing Shoulders: Class Segregation in Daily Activities (papers.ssrn.com)
The New Vote Buying: Empty Voting and Hidden (Morphable) Ownership (papers.ssrn.com)
Will Required Minimum Distributions Exhaust My Savings and Leave Me in Penury? (papers.ssrn.com)
Gender Bias in Perceived Quality. An Experiment with Elite Soccer Performance (papers.ssrn.com)
We perform an experiment showing participants video clips of elite female and male soccer players. In the control group, participants evaluated normal videos where the gender of the players was clear to see. In the treatment group, participants evaluated the same videos but with gender obscured by blurring. We find that...
Surveilling the Gamers: Analysis of in-game data gathering (papers.ssrn.com)
Crazy to think that this stuff can potentially end up tied to your identity and used for advertising, or even (in theory) other purposes like credit worthiness or a job suitability assessment....
Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media (papers.ssrn.com)
Current approaches to content moderation generally assume the continued dominance of “walled gardens”: social media platforms that control who can use their ser
TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that joining a fraternity in college lowered a student’s GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by 36%. (papers.ssrn.com)
We exploit changes in the residential and social environment on campus to identify the economic and academic consequences of fraternity membership at a small No
TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that joining a fraternity in college lowered a student’s GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by 36%. (papers.ssrn.com)
We exploit changes in the residential and social environment on campus to identify the economic and academic consequences of fraternity membership at a small No
The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigation (papers.ssrn.com)
Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models (papers.ssrn.com)
Can Competition Law Save Democracy? Reflections on Democracy’s Tech-Driven Decline and How to Stop It (papers.ssrn.com)
In this paper, we discuss the role competition law can play in safeguarding the democratic ideal. We do so against the background of the tech-driven decline of democracy that can be witnessed around the globe....
Vertical #Interoperability in Mobile Ecosystems: Will the #DMA Deliver (What Competition Law Could Not)? (Colangelo & Ribera Martínez, in press) (papers.ssrn.com)
To address concerns about the competitive dynamics of digital markets, the promotion of interoperability has been often pointed out as a fundamental component of policy reform agendas. In the case of mobile ecosystems, the smooth and seamless availability of interoperability features is crucial as third-party devices and apps...