Gael Le Mens
@glemens.bsky.social
Full Professor in the department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. I study how people, organizations and machines learn.
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1/ Why do inferior but popular things remain popular?
Excited to share our new paper with @pantelispa.bsky.social, @glemens.bsky.social & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
"The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Excited to share our new paper with @pantelispa.bsky.social, @glemens.bsky.social & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
"The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in
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February 26, 2026 at 9:51 AM
1/ Why do inferior but popular things remain popular?
Excited to share our new paper with @pantelispa.bsky.social, @glemens.bsky.social & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
"The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Excited to share our new paper with @pantelispa.bsky.social, @glemens.bsky.social & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
"The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵
Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program
Post-industrial governments around the world are increasingly prioritizing policies to accelerate digitalization, but despite the growing literature on technological change and the knowledge econom...
doi.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:16 AM
📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵
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Currently in FirstView: “Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging.” @glemens.bsky.social and @ainagallego.bsky.social use a variety of LLMs to take in political texts and position political actors in policy and ideological space.
May 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Currently in FirstView: “Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging.” @glemens.bsky.social and @ainagallego.bsky.social use a variety of LLMs to take in political texts and position political actors in policy and ideological space.
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A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN.
The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper.
The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper.
The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN.
The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper.
The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper.
The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Can DeepSeek accurately scale political text? @glemens.bsky.social just replicated the analyses of our joint Political Analysis paper with DeepSeek and with the newest version of Llama (Llama 3.3 70B). Overall, DeepSeekV3 performs at a level similar to Llama 3.3, but definitely not better. 1/5
January 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Can DeepSeek accurately scale political text? @glemens.bsky.social just replicated the analyses of our joint Political Analysis paper with DeepSeek and with the newest version of Llama (Llama 3.3 70B). Overall, DeepSeekV3 performs at a level similar to Llama 3.3, but definitely not better. 1/5
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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
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January 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo