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Mohamed Saleh
Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018
Laurent Miclo
Catherine Donati-Martin, Antoine Lejay, and Alain Rouault (eds.), 2018
Guillaume Cheikbossian, and Philippe Mahenc
vol. 174, n. 4, December 2018, pp. 595–628
We study the ability of several identical firms to collude in the presence of a more efficient firm, which does not take part in their collusive agreement. The cartel firms adopt stick-and-carrot strategies, while the efficient firm plays its one-period best-response function, regardless of the...
Daniel L. Chen, and Jess Eagel
2018
In this study, we analyzed 492,903 asylum hearings from 336 different hearing locations, rendered by 441 unique judges over a thirty-two year period from 1981-2013. We define the problem of asylum adjudication prediction as a binary classification task, and using the random forest method developed...
Eric Gautier, and Erwan Le Pennec
vol. 12, n. 1, 2018, pp. 277–320
Isis Durrmeyer, and Mario Samano
vol. 128, n. 616, December 2018, pp. 3076–3116
We compare the welfare effects in equilibrium of two environmental regulations that aim at increasing the new cars fleet’s average fuel efficiency: the fuel economy standards and the feebate policies. Maintaining the same environmental benefit and tax revenue, we simulate the implementation of each...
Marc Ivaldi
Bernard Landau, and Youssef Diab (eds.), 2018
Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan, and Thi-Huong Trinh
vol. 110, 2018, pp. 192–204
Assessing the nonlinearity of the calorie-income relationship is a crucial issue when evaluating policies aimed at fighting against malnutrition. A natural choice would be to adopt a fully nonparametric speci- fication of the relationship in order to let the data reveal its nonlinearity. But, we...
Alexandre d'Aspremont, and Andrea Attar
Luis C. Corchon, and Marco A. Marini (eds.), vol. 1, chapter 15, 2018, pp. 425–452
Daniel L. Chen
This paper proposes a reference-point dependent model of social behavior where individuals maximize a three-term utility function: a consumption utility term and two “social” terms. One social term captures a preference for desert (i.e., others getting what we think they deserve) and the other term...
