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Sherief Abdallah, Jean-François Bonnefon, Manuel Cebrian, Jacob W. Crandall, Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko, Mayada Oudah, Iyad Rahwan, Azim Shariff, and Tennom
vol. 9, n. 233, January 2018
James K. Hammitt, and Daniel Herrera-Araujo
vol. 87, January 2018, pp. 165–189
We develop validity tests for application to stated-preference estimates of WTP to reduce mortality risk, i.e., value per statistical life (VSL), and apply these to data obtained by surveying a representative sample of French adults over the internet. These tests (WTP nearly proportional to risk...
Dana Galizia, Franck Portier, and Paul Beaudry
vol. 85, n. 1, January 2018, pp. 119–156
Recessions often happen after periods of rapid accumulation of houses, consumer durables and business capital. This observation has led some economists, most notably Friedrich Hayek, to conclude that recessions often reflect periods of needed liquidation resulting from past over-investment....
Simon Dietz, Christian Gollier, and Louise Kessler
vol. 87, January 2018, pp. 258–274
Mitigation reduces the expected future damages from climate change,flbut how does it affect the aggregate risk borne by future generations?flThis raises the question of the ‘climate beta’, i.e., the elasticity of climatefldamages with respect to a change in aggregate consumption. Inflthis paper we...
Jianyu Yu, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, and Angelo Zago
vol. 100, n. 1, January 2018, pp. 286–310
Collective labels are widespread in food markets, either separated or nested with private brands; the latter known as nested names. We propose a model to explain the rationale of nested names, with collective labels being effective in reaching unaware consumers while individual brands help firms to...
Ola Andersson, Cédric Argenton, and Jörgen W. Weibull
vol. 91, January 2018, pp. 1–5
Christophe Lévêque, and Mohamed Saleh
vol. 67, January 2018, pp. 40–61
We investigate the impact of state industrialization on residential segregation between Muslims and non-Muslims in nineteenth-century Cairo using individual-level census samples from 1848 and1868. We measure local segregation by a simple inter-group isolation index, where Muslims' (non-Muslims')...
Vessela Daskalova
vol. 107, January 2018, pp. 238–252
This paper presents an experiment investigating whether decision makers discriminate between members of their own group and members of another group. I focus on two aspects of this question: First, I compare behavior in individual and in joint decisions; Second, I test whether the identity of the...
Gilles Lafforgue, and François Salanié
vol. 31, n. 3, 2017, pp. 1–8
Abdelaati Daouia, Léopold Simar, and Paul Wilson
vol. 36, n. 1-3, 2017, pp. 156–181
