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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-...
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...
Nicolas Treich
vol. 33, April 2018, pp. 3–48
Economics is not interested in animals. The object of this paper is to stimulate research in economics about animals and about veganism. By veganism, we mean all types of behaviors which consist in modifying (and not only eliminating) the use and the consumption of animals for moral reasons. We...
Ian Schindler, and Cyril Tintarev
April 2018, pp. 57–48
Jad M. Chaaban, Hala Ghattas, Alexandra Irani, and Alban Thomas
vol. 10, n. 2, April 2018, pp. 457–472
We propose an empirical method for improving food assistance scoring and targeting, which minimizes under-coverage and leakage of food and cash assistance programs. The empirical strategy relies on a joint econometric estimation of food insecurity and economic vulnerability indicators at the...
Abdelaati Daouia, Stéphane Girard, and Gilles Stupfler
vol. 80, n. Série B, March 2018, pp. 263–292
We use tail expectiles to estimate alternative measures to the Value at Risk (VaR), Expected Shortfall (ES) and Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES), three instruments of risk protection of utmost importance in actuarial science and statistical finance. The concept of expectiles is a least squares...
François Cochard, Hélène Couprie, and Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 21, n. 1, March 2018, pp. 50–71
Female specialization on household work and male specialization on labor-market work is a widely observed phenomenon across time and countries. This absence of gender neutrality with respect to work-division is known as the “work-division puzzle”. Gender differences regarding characteristics (...
Patrick Fève, Pablo Garcia, and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc
vol. 164, March 2018, pp. 10–14
Is risk taking an important channel by which monetary policy shocks affect economic activity? On the basis of a nonlinear structural VAR including a new measure of risk sensitivity by economic agents, we show that the role of the risk-taking channel depends on the state of the economy. While it is...
Jay Pil Choi, Doh-Shin Jeon, and Byung-Cheol Kim
vol. 66, n. 1, March 2018, pp. 172–204
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider (CP)'s investment incentives to enhance its quality of services (QoS) in content delivery to end users. We find that the effects crucially depend on whether the CP's entry decision is constrained by the Internet...
Christophe Bernard, Marie-Françoise Calmette, Maureen Kilkenny, Catherine Loustalan, and Isabelle Pechoux
vol. 69, n. 2, March 2018
We show how a large country’s entrance on world markets can lead to lower and less quality diversity available to consumers rather than more. In our model, autarky quality is directly proportional to the willingness to pay for quality and home market size, and inversely proportional to the cost of...
