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Claude Crampes, and Jean-Michel Trochet
vol. 24, n. 100746, August 2019
Electricity storage encompasses a disparate list of technologies such as pumped-storage hydroelectricity, compressed-air energy storage, chemical batteries and flywheels. These technologies can provide the electricity system with heterogeneous services of energy transfers across months, weeks, days...
Ingela Alger, and Jörgen W. Weibull
vol. 11, August 2019, pp. 329–354
The literature on the evolution of preferences of individuals in strategic interactions is vast and diverse. We organize the discussion around the following question: Supposing that material outcomes drive evolutionary success, under what circumstances does evolution promote Homo economicus,...
Sjaak Hurkens, Doh-Shin Jeon, and Domenico Menicucci
vol. 11, n. 3, August 2019, pp. 1–33
We study how bundling affects competition between two asymmetric multi-product firms. One firm dominates the other in that it produces better products more efficiently. For low (high) levels of dominance, bundling intensifies (relaxes) price competition and lowers (raises) both firms’ profits. For...
Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan, and Thi-Huong Trinh
vol. 28, n. 8, August 2019, pp. 2305–2325
This paper contributes to the analysis of the impact of socioeconomic factors, like food expenditure level and urbanization, on diet patterns in Vietnam, from 2004 to 2014. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the diet balance in terms of macronutrients consumption (protein, fat and...
Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Caleb Finch, Dong Li, Matthew Budoff, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven
August 2019
Modern humans have more fragile skeletons than other hominins, which may result from physical inactivity. Here we test whether reproductive effort also compromises bone strength, by measuring using computed tomography thoracic vertebral bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture prevalence among...
Stefan Ambec, Alexis Garapin, Laurent Muller, and Bilel Rahali
vol. 81, August 2019, pp. 128–138
We investigate how institutions can shape differently the expression for efficiency and equity. We run four variants of the triple dictator game and the trust game in a within-subject design that enables to plot individual patterns. A veil of ignorance, a positional fee and information about others...
Laurent Miclo
vol. 154, August 2019, pp. 1–35
The Markov commutator associated to a finite Markov kernel P is the convex semigroup consisting of all Markov kernels commuting with P. Its interest comes from its relation with the hypergroup property and with the notion of Markovian duality by intertwining. In particular, it is shown that the...
Eric Maskin, and Jean Tirole
vol. 176, August 2019, pp. 79–93
We develop a model of pork-barrel politics in which a government official tries to improve her reelection chances by spending on targeted interest groups. The spending signals that she shares their concerns. We investigate the effect of such pandering on the public deficit. Pandering widens the...
Michael Becher, and Irene Menendez
vol. 113, n. 3, August 2019, pp. 694–709
We examine the effect of electoral institutions on two important features of representation that are often studied separately: policy responsiveness and the quality of legislators. Theoretically, we show that while a proportional electoral system is better than a majoritarian one at representing...
Céline Nauges, and Dale Whittington
vol. 5, n. 3, July 2019, p. 1850026
Social norms comparisons are tools that are being used more and more often by energy and water utilities all over the world in order to induce households to conserve resources. Such conservation programs are appealing to utilities since they are an easy-to-implement alternative to raising prices...
