Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on developed and developing groups, while Association of...

In recent years, Bayesian Optimization (BO) has received increasing attention due to its high sample efficiency in the global optimization of expensive-to-evaluate functions. As a principled approach to sequential decision-making under uncertainty, BO has been widely used in domain-specific...

A sender designs an information structure to persuade a receiver to take an action. The sender is ignorant about the receiver's prior, and evaluates each information structure using the receiver's prior that is the worst for the sender. I characterize the optimal information structures in this...