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Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab bio.site/joshuagans
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Paying for Quality vs. Paying for Rank: When Purifying a Metric Backfires

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By Joshua Gans, Scott Kominers
| National Bureau of Economic Research
We are grateful to David Laibson, Nat Malkus, Jeff Miron, Alexandru Nichifor, and Jesse Shapiro for helpful conversations. We also thank Refine.ink, ChatGPT 5.5/Pro, Claude Opus 4.7-8 and Fable 5 for research assistance. Responsibility for all errors remains our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Joshua S.
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The Big Mess

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By Joshua Gans
| Substack
It has been a while. I have been very busy using all the new AI capabilities that have arrived this year to accelerate my own research. There is much to talk about there, but today is not the day for that. Instead, thanks to the events of last week, which were a rollercoaster, to say the least, I find myself with some time to pop back in here and share some thoughts. I named this substack “mess and magic.” Right now, that is about as accurate a description of AI as you can get.
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Bayesian Non-Persuasion

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By Joshua Gans
| National Bureau of Economic Research
Thanks to Refine.ink, ChatGPT 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 for valuable research assistance. Responsibility for all errors remains my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Copy Citation Joshua S. Gans, "Bayesian Non-Persuasion," NBER Working Paper 35312 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35312. Download Citation MARC RIS BibTeΧ Related
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