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Market Design/Entrepreneurship Professor @HarvardHBS & Faculty Affiliate @Harvard Economics; Research @a16zcrypto; Editor @restatjournal; Econ @Quora; … | #QED
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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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What Harvard’s New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)

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By Nat Malkus, Scott Kominers
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Recently, Harvard faculty voted to push back on grade inflation at the institution by capping the proportion of A’s given to students at 20%. But according to a new paper, Harvard’s new policy—and grade caps in general—are not the right solution. In What Does a Grade Mean? Informativeness and Strategic Manipulation of Grading Systems, Scott Duke Kominers and Joshua S. Gans argue that to create better incentives for students and faculty, we need to change the current grading system itself.
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a16z: Why Prediction Markets Matter

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By Scott Kominers
| techflowpost.com
By Scott Duke Kominers, Research Partner at a16z crypto Translated by Chopper, Foresight News Prediction markets allow users to trade on the outcomes of various events. These platforms began scaling widely across the U.S. last year and now track everything from geopolitical developments to winners of entertainment awards. But what exactly are prediction markets?
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