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Jean-Paul Azam, and Mario Ferrero

vol. 30, n. 6, 2019, pp. 687–705

This paper addresses the waves of mass killings recently perpetrated by individuals with a weak or nonexistent ideological motivation, whose acts either appear to contradict their purported political cause or are admittedly driven by a quest for notoriety. Examples range from killers who have been...

Astrid Hopfensitz, and Cesar Mantilla

vol. 75, n. B, December 2019

Emotion display serves as incentives or deterrents for others’ in many social interactions. We study the portrayal of anger and happiness, two emotions associated with dominance, and its relationship to team performance in a high stake environment. We analyze 4,318 pictures of players from 304...

Alexandre Cornière (de), and Greg Taylor

vol. 50, n. 4, 2019, pp. 854–882

We study situations in which consumers rely on a biased intermediary’s advice when choosing among sellers. We introduce the notion that sellers’ and consumers’ payoffs can be congruent or conflicting, and show that this has important implications for the effects of bias. Under congruence, the firm...

Céline Bonnet, Vincent Réquillart, and Louis-Georges Soler

Véronique Coxam, and Jean-Michel Chardigny (eds.), 2019

Zhijun Chen, and Patrick Rey

vol. 50, n. 3, 2019, pp. 645–665

Cross-subsidization arises naturally when firms with different comparative ad- vantages compete for consumers with diverse shopping patterns. Firms then face a form of co-opetition, being substitutes for one-stop shoppers and complements for multi-stop shoppers. Competition for one-stop shoppers...

Olivier De Groote, and Frank Verboven

vol. 109, n. 6, 2019, pp. 2137–2172

We study a generous program to promote the adoption of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems through subsidies on future electricity production, rather than through upfront investment subsidies. We develop a tractable dynamic model of new technology adoption, also accounting for local market...

Benjamin Ouvrard

vol. 34, n. 2, 2019, pp. 3–60

Marion Desquilbet, David S. Bullock, and Filippo Maria D'Arcangelo

vol. 17, n. 5, 2019, pp. 326–337

Weed control in the U.S. Midwest has become increasingly herbicide-centric due to the adoption of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in the 1990s. That integrated weed management (IWM) practices, including ecological and mechanical controls, are scarcely used is concerning. IWM would be a more...

Marie-Françoise Calmette, and Philippe Bontems

vol. 129, n. 6, 2019, pp. 967–992

Daniel F. Garrett, Renato Gomes, and Lucas Maestri

vol. 86, 2019, pp. 1590–1630

We study the interplay between informational frictions and second-degree price discrimination. Our theory recognizes that consumers differ in their tastes for quality as well as in the information they possess about available offers, which leads to dispersion over price-quality menus in equilibrium...