Authoritarian regimes in the 21st century have increasingly turned to using information control rather than kinetic force respond threats their rule. This paper studies an often overlooked type of control: strategic labeling and public statements by regime sources response protests. Labeling protesters as violent criminals may increase support for repression signaling that protests are illegiti...

Abstract This study develops a new dynamic general equilibrium model to explore the role of people’s love novelty as cultural preference in innovation and innovation-based growth. The considers (a) an infinitely lived representative consumer who has standard love-of-variety preferences for differentiated products additional love-of-novelty (b) technological progress driven by two costly time-co...