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Daniel L. Chen

vol. 27, n. 1, March 2019, pp. 15–42

Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing efficiency and fairness of law. Judicial analytics can assess extra-legal factors that influence decisions. Behavioral anomalies in judicial decision-making offer an intuitive understanding of feature relevance, which can then be used...

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Matteo Bobba, and Jérémie Gignoux

vol. 33, n. 1, February 2019, pp. 116–139

When potential beneficiaries share their knowledge and attitudes about a policy intervention, their decision to participate and the effectiveness of both the policy and its evaluation may be influenced. This matters most notably in integrated social policies with several components. We examine...

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Ingrid Van Keilegom, and Anne Vanhems

vol. 35, n. 1, February 2019, pp. 73–110

We consider a semiparametric transformation model, in which the regression func- tion has an additive nonparametric structure and the transformation of the response is assumed to belong to some parametric family. We suppose that endogeneity is present in the explanatory variables. Using a control...

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Abdelaati Daouia, Stéphane Girard, and Gilles Stupfler

vol. 25, n. 1, February 2019, pp. 264–309

The class of quantiles lies at the heart of extreme-value theory and is one of the basic tools in risk management. The alternative family of expectiles is based on squared rather than absolute error loss minimization. It has recently been receiving a lot of attention in actuarial science,...

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Henrik Andersson, Elodie Levivier, and Gunnar Lindberg

vol. 123, February 2019, pp. 170–175

Stated preference (SP) methods are often used to elicit an affected population’s preferences for, e.g., increased safety or better environmental quality. SP methods are based on hypothetical market scenarios which have advantages, since decision alternatives are known to the analysis, but also...

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Kene Boun My, and Benjamin Ouvrard

vol. 55, February 2019, pp. 24–48

An experiment is proposed in which the subjects could contribute to a public good which could be thought of as reducing pollution, which was stochastic. A nudge (announcement of the socially optimal contribution) and a tax are implemented to improve the level of contributions. The environmental...

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Patrick Fève, and Alain Guay

vol. 129, n. 618, February 2019, pp. 877–896

This paper investigates the contribution of sentiments shocks to US fluctuations in a Structural VAR setup with long, medium and short run restrictions. Sentiments shocks are identified as shocks orthogonal to fundamentals that accounts for most of the variance of confidence. We assess our...

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Helmuth Cremer, and Kerstin Roeder

vol. 175, February 2019, pp. 71–75

We study the taxation of couples when female wages do not re?ect their true productivity. We show that the expression for the marginal tax rates of the male spouses is the same as in a Mirrleesian world where wages re?ect true productivities. Marginal taxes for the female spouses are reduced...

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Michael Becher

vol. 31, n. 2, March 1, 2019, pp. 183–208

There is striking variation across parliamentary democracies in the power of prime ministers to employ two prominent procedures to resolve legislative conflict: the vote of confidence and the dissolution of parliament. While previous contributions in comparative politics have investigated each of...

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Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti, and François Salanié

vol. 14, n. 1, January 2019, pp. 297–343

We study a discriminatory limit-order book in which market makers compete in nonlinear tariffs to serve a privately informed insider. Our model allows for general nonparametric specifications of preferences and arbitrary discrete distributions for the insider's private information. Adverse...

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