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Alberto Micheletti, Graeme D. Ruxton, and Andy Gardner

vol. 2, n. e7, 2020, 15 pages

Paul Seabright

n. 10, 2020, pp. 345–357

The fact that adherents of most religions subscribe sincerely to many counter-empirical beliefs has been argued to pose a challenge to evolutionary explanations of religion, since natural selection is considered to have developed sophisticated cognitive mechanisms to enable prehistoric foragers to...

Stéphan Marette, and Vincent Réquillart

vol. 101, 2020, pp. 5–22

This introductory article presents the three main challenges faced in economics to issues raised by dietary models. The first part of this paper examines the dietary models that maximise the health profile of a population under various constraints, including environmental and agronomic criteria....

Erica Doro, and Vincent Réquillart

vol. 101, 2020, pp. 117–146

Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer, and Firouz Gahvari

vol. 55, 2020, pp. 687–734

We study the role and the design of long-term care insurance programs when informal care is uncertain; with and without active actuarially-fair private insurance markets against dependency. Three types of public insurance policies are considered: (i) a topping-up scheme, (ii) an opting-out scheme,...

Hervé Guyomard, Cécile Détang-Dessendre, C. Brennetot, Vincent Chatellier, Luc Delaby, Pierre Dupraz, A. Gohin, Sylvain Pellerin, Jean-Louis Peyraud, Vincent Réquillart, Bertrand Schmitt, and Louis-Georges Soler

n. 372, 2020, pp. 11–30

Cet article propose une analyse de plusieurs aspects des propositions législatives pour la PAC de l’après 2020 présentées par la Commission européenne le 1er juin 2018. La première section, de nature transversale, aborde les questions des objectifs de la future PAC et de leur déclinaison en...

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Estelle Malavolti

Timothy J. Brennan, and Victor Glass (eds.), 2020

George-Marios Angeletos, Fabrice Collard, and Harris Dellas

vol. 10, 2020, pp. 3030–70

We propose a new strategy for dissecting the macroeconomic time series, provide a template for the propagation mechanism that best describes the observed business cycles, and use its properties to appraise models of both the parsimonious and the medium-scale variety. Our findings support the...

François Causeret, Stéphane Cezera, and J.M Rousselle

n. 101, December 2020

This document applies to anybody who wants to understand what is Experimental Economics and the benefits that can profit from this approach for empirical works which validity and scope can be evaluated in a scientific work. In a pragmatic way are described in this document the different steps to be...

Sylvain Billiard, Maxime Derex, Ludovic Maisonneuve, and Thomas Rey

vol. 30, n. 14, December 2020, pp. 2697–2723

Understanding how knowledge is created and propagates within groups is crucial to explain how human populations have evolved through time. Anthropologists have relied on different theoretical models to address this question. In this work, we introduce a mathematically oriented model that shares...