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André Grimaud, and Luc Rougé
Ana Espinola-Arredondo, and Felix Munoz-Garcia (eds.), World Scientific Publishing, chapter 9, 2017, pp. 209–230
Laurent Miclo
vol. 53, n. 2, 2017, pp. 957–996
Adrien Blanchet, Stéphane Cezera, R. Escobedo, B. Jayles, Tatsuya Kameda, H.-R. Kim, Clément Sire, and Guy Théraulaz
vol. 114, n. 47, December 2017
Digital technologies deeply impact the way that people interact. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how social influence affects individual and collective decision-making. We performed experiments where subjects had to answer questions and then revise their opinion after knowing the average...
Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay
vol. 61, n. 3, 2017, pp. 624–641
Influential recent scholarship assumes that authoritarian rulers act as perfect agents of economic elites, foreclosing the possibility that economic elites may at times prefer democracy absent a popular threat from below. Motivated by a puzzling set of democratic transitions, we relax this...
Cyril Favre-Martinoz, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Jean-François Beaumont, and David Haziza
Maurizio Vichi (ed.), 2017
The classical tools of robust statistics have to be adapted to the finite population context. Recently, a unified approach for robust estimation in surveys has been introduced. It is based on an influence measure called the conditional bias that allows to take into account the particular finite...
Olivier Faugeras, and Ludger Rüschendorf
vol. 48, n. 1, 2017
Our purpose is both conceptual and practical. On the one hand, we discuss the question which properties are basic ingredients of a general conceptual notion of a multivariate quantile. We propose and argue that the object “quantile” should be defined as a Markov morphism which carries over similar...
David Bardey, and Giancarlo Buitrago
vol. 56, December 2017, pp. 317–329
The aim of this article is to estimate the type of selection that exists in the voluntary health insurance market in Colombia where the compulsory coverage is implemented through a managed care competition. We build a panel database that combines individuals’ information from the Ministry of Health...
Yuriy Pichugin, Jorge Peña, Paul Rainey, and Arne Traulsen
vol. 13, n. 11, 2017
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 211, n. 2, 2017, pp. 1–34
Jean-Paul Décamps, and Stéphane Villeneuve
n. 126, 2017, pp. 231–240
Under the combined effects of a decline in rates and the political desire to help finance the economy within a regulatory environment that is restrictive for banks, since 2012 the law has authorized insurance companies, under certain conditions, to allocate up to 5% of their clients’ savings to the...
