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Christian Gollier, and Miles S. Kimball
vol. 85, n. 2, June 2018, pp. 397–430
Bruno Jullien, and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
vol. 58, May 2018, pp. 31–62
We consider zero-rating by Internet service providers. We analyze the implications of offering sponsored data plans that allow content providers to pay for traffic on behalf of their consumers. These plans boost consumption of high-value content and decrease the networks'incentives to exclude low-...
Fabien Panloup, Sofiane Saadane, and Sébastien Gadat
May 2018, pp. 886–926
Narendra-Shapiro (NS) algorithms are bandit-type algorithms developed in the 1960s which have been deeply studied in infinite horizon but for which scarce non-asymptotic results exist. In this paper, we focus on a non-asymptotic study of the regret and address the following question: are Narendra-...
Henrik Andersson, Lars Hultkrantz, Gunnar Lindberg, and Jan-Eric Nilsson
vol. 9, n. 1, Spring 2018, pp. 120–146
Beginning as a planning tool within Sweden’s national road administration some 50 years ago, benefit-cost analysis (BCA) has come to be a pillar of the national transport policy because of subsequent strategic choices made by the national parliament. These choices made it necessary to widen the...
Henrik Andersson
vol. 9, n. 1, Spring 2018, pp. 84–96
Although benefit-cost analysis (BCA) can be traced back to European thinkers, its first practical applications were in the United States. Recent years have witnessed a growing demand for economic appraisals of policies in different sectors in Europe, but the implementation rate is still low...
Vishal Kamat
vol. 34, n. 3, May 2018, pp. 694–703
This paper studies the validity of nonparametric tests used in the regression discontinuity design. The null hypothesis of interest is that the average treatment effect at the threshold in the so-called sharp design equals a pre-specified value. We first show that, under assumptions used in the...
Yeon-Koo Che, and Johannes Hörner
vol. 133, n. 2, May 2018, pp. 871–925
This paper studies how a recommender system may incentivize users to learn about a product collaboratively. To improve the incentives for early exploration, the optimal design trades off fully transparent disclosure by selectively overrecommending the product (or “spamming”) to a fraction of users...
Céline Bonnet, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, and Tifenn Corre
vol. 147, May 2018, pp. 48–61
After fossil fuels, agricultural production and fisheries are industries with the largest impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially in the production of ruminant meats such as beef, veal or lamb. In order to reduce this environmental impact, consumers can...
Wei Hu, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 38, n. 2, April 2018, pp. 720–724
In this paper, we consider an intergroup contest game with intragroup altruism. We show that more altruism within a group increases conflict intensity by increasing total groups' efforts. Moreover, we show that, unlike the celebrated Olson's group size paradox, group size increases the probability...
Ian Schindler, and Cyril Tintarev
April 2018, pp. 57–48
