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Arnaud Reynaud
n. 3, 2017
More than half of the global river network is composed of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES), which are expanding in response to climate change and increasing water demands. After years of obscurity, the science of IRES has bloomed recently and it is being recognised that IRES support...
Marcel Boyer, Thomas W. Ross, and Ralph Winter
Toronto, vol. 50, n. 5, December 2017, pp. 1489–1524
Competition policy in Canada and elsewhere has changed remarkably over the last fifty years – in large measure due to advances in economics. In this article we trace the impact of developments in industrial organization on the three central areas of competition policy: cartels, single firm conduct...
Jean-François Bonnefon, Wim De Neys, and Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 26, 2017, pp. 276–281
Humans are willing to cooperate with each other for mutual benefit—and to accept the risk of exploitation. To avoid collaborating with the wrong person, people sometimes attempt to detect cooperativeness in others’ body language, facial features, and facial expressions. But how reliable are these...
Jean-François Bonnefon, M. Juanchich, and M. Sirota
C. Cummins, and N. Katsos (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2017
vol. 64, n. 4, 2017, pp. 231–239
Economic interactions often imply to gauge the trustworthiness of others. Recent studies showed that when making trust decisions in economic games, people have some accuracy in detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown partners. Here we provide evidence that this face-based...
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...
Ingela Alger, and Jörgen W. Weibull
vol. 8, 2017
Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some light on this complex and non-trivial issue by examining a few canonical strategic interactions played by egoists, altruists and moralists. By altruists, we mean people who do not...
Nicolas Pistolesi
vol. 44, 2017, pp. 106–121
This paper measures the effect of a policy implemented in France in 2009 advising students on their field of study at university. Applicants receive reviews from universities on their chances of graduating, which are determined relative to their numerical grades in high-school. To measure the...
K.J. Martijn Cremers, Saura Masconale, and Simone M. Sepe
vol. 94, n. 2, 2017
Stephen F. Hamilton, and Vincent Réquillart
vol. 26, n. 12, December 2017, pp. 1637–1643
There has been surprisingly little research to date on the supply-side role of food manufacturers on equilibrium health outcomes for consumers. In this letter we consider an oligopoly model in which food processors choose the health composition of manufactured food. We show that price competition...
