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Alban Thomas, Claire Lamine, Benjamin Allès, Yuna Chiffoleau, Antoine Doré, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, and Mourad Hannachi
vol. 101, August 2020, pp. 23–46
We discuss in this paper the role of the economic and social organization in agriculture and the food industry, in relation with the Health-Agriculture-Food-Environment (HAFEN) concept. The aim is to better understand the potential impact of the implementation of this concept in food consumption...
Bence Bago, David Rand, and Gordon Pennycook
vol. 149, n. 8, August 2020, p. 1608–1613
What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and “fake news”? The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that deliberation causes people to fall for fake news, because reasoning facilitates identity-protective cognition and is therefore used to...
Boris Babic, Daniel L. Chen, Theodoros Evgeniou, and Anne-Laure Fayard
vol. 98, n. 4, August 2020, pp. 56–65
In a 2018 Workforce Institute survey of 3,000 managers across eight industrialized nations, the majority of respondents described artificial intelligence as a valuable productivity tool. But respondents to that survey also expressed fears that AI would take their jobs. They are not alone. The...
Jérôme Renault, and Bruno Ziliotto
vol. 45, n. 3, August 2020, pp. 889–895
Farid Gasmi, Laura Recuero Virto, and Denis Couvet
vol. 77, n. 2, August 2020, pp. 271–333
In a dataset on 83 countries covering the years 1960–2009, we find a negative indirect effect of the share of renewable natural capital in wealth on economic growth transmitted through demographic factors, more specifically, population fertility. In contrast, in countries with lower income...
Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Marie-Louise Leroux, and Pierre-Carl Michaud
vol. 12, n. 3, August 2020, pp. 134–169
This paper conducts a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect against nancial risks associated with long-term care needs. Using exogenous variation in prices from the survey design and individual cost estimates, these stated-choice...
Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti, and François Salanié
vol. 130, n. 630, August 2020, pp. 1608–1622
We study resource allocation under private information when the planner cannot prevent bilateral side trading between consumers and firms. Adverse selection and side trading severely restrict feasible trades: each marginal quantity must be fairly priced given the consumer types who purchase it. The...
Allison Loconto, Marion Desquilbet, Denis Couvet, Bruno Dorin, and Théo Moreau
vol. 96, n. 103610, July 2020
Feeding 9 billion people by 2050 on one hand, and preserving the erosion of biodiversity on the other hand, are two shared policy goals at the global level. Yet while these goals are clear, they are to some extent in conflict, because agriculture is a major cause of biodiversity loss, and the path...
Andrei Hagiu, Bruno Jullien, and Julian Wright
vol. 66, n. 7, July 2020, pp. 2801–3294
We explore conditions under which a multiproduct firm can profitably turn itself into a platform by "hosting rivals," i.e. by inviting rivals to sell products or services on top of its core product. Hosting eliminates the additional shopping costs to consumers of buying a specialist rival's...
Bård Harstad
vol. 128, n. 7, July 2020, pp. 2653–2689
A growing body of evidence suggests that individuals have time-inconsistent preferences. Even when they do not, policy makers who fear to loose elections will apply discount rates that decrease in relative time when they consider investment projects. To ináuence future choices, current strategic...
