Clay weekly context brief for the Economics category (ISO week 2026-W36).

Clay tracks publications from the Economics feed list. Below are recent items from this category, each with its source and a short description of what the publication covers when one is available in the source feed.

Recent publications:
1. Near-Optimal Mechanisms for Resource Allocation Without Monetary Transfers
   Source: econ.TH (Theoretical Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10066
   We study the problem in which a central planner sequentially allocates a single resource to multiple strategic agents using their utility reports at each round, but without using any monetary transfers.
2. Digital Engagement, Income Disparities, and Job Seeking in the United States since 2010
   Source: econ.GN (General Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05294
   Surveys often record how frequently people use the internet without measuring the infrastructures, skills, and support systems that make digital participation possible.
3. Iterative Distributed Multinomial Regression
   Source: econ.EM (Econometrics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01030
   This article introduces an iterative distributed computing estimator for the multinomial logistic regression model with large choice sets.
4. Ranking Experiments under Sequential Sampling
   Source: econ.TH (Theoretical Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19897
   We compare statistical experiments when observations are inexpensive and can be acquired sequentially until the decision maker chooses to stop.
5. The Dynamic Trade-Off of Dual-Class Shares
   Source: econ.GN (General Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25972
   Dual-class shares allocate control to founders whose firm-specific investments drive firm value but separate control from ownership, raising agency costs.
6. Learning the Effect of Persuasion via Difference-In-Differences
   Source: econ.EM (Econometrics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14871
   We develop a difference-in-differences framework to measure the persuasive impact of informational treatments on behavior in staggered treatment settings.
7. Fair Commodity Taxation
   Source: econ.TH (Theoretical Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19044
   We study optimal taxation in monopoly screening problems with a redistribution-minded regulator.
8. The Race for Elite Destinations: Education Competition and Low Fertility in Korea
   Source: econ.GN (General Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27980
   South Korea has the world's lowest fertility and an intense education race.
9. Causal Non-causal State Space Models and the Modelling of Financial Bubbles
   Source: econ.EM (Econometrics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28115
   In this paper, we study causal non-causal state space models to model time series characterised by a local explosive increase followed by a sharp decrease such as stock prices.
10. Timing, Entry, and Revenue in Clock-Based Platform Markets
   Source: econ.TH (Theoretical Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10638
   On platforms where time-to-contract is itself payoff-relevant--Aalsmeer's flower auctions, ride-hailing dispatch, on-demand-labor matching--the textbook revenue equivalence between Dutch and first-price formats holds the trading outcome fixed.
11. Do Customer Disclosures Affect Suppliers' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions?
   Source: econ.GN (General Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27598
   This study examines whether customer disclosures affect how supplier firms allocate capital across business segments.
12. Refundable Deposits: How to Restore Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Games
   Source: econ.TH (Theoretical Economics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27536
   While infinitely repeated games admit a rich set of Nash equilibria, finitely repeated games typically have a much smaller and often inefficient one.

Sources in this brief: econ.EM (Econometrics); econ.GN (General Economics); econ.TH (Theoretical Economics).
Selected 12 of 13 available items for this weekly brief.