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Laurent Miclo

vol. 53, n. 2, 2017, pp. 957–996

Estelle Malavolti, and Frédéric Marty

vol. 25, 2017, pp. 30–40

A lot of cases had arouse in the past decade about agreements between regional airports and low-cost carriers. These agreements are challenged on the basis of the State Aids European control as they rise concerns not only about competition distortions between airlines but also about fiscal...

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...

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...

Lika Ba, Farid Gasmi, and Paul Noumba Um

vol. 42, n. 3, 2017, pp. 17–40

Tiziana Assenza, A. Brock, and C.H. Hommes

Western Economic Association International, vol. 55, n. 1, 2017, pp. 542–564

We introduce a simple equilibrium model of a market for loans, where households lend to firms based on heterogeneous expectations about their loan default probability. Agents select endogenously among heterogeneous expectation rules, based upon their relative performance. Due to strong...

Sangmin Aum, Tim Lee, and Yongseok Shin

2017

The U.S. labor market contracted sharply during the Great Recession. The ensuing recovery has been sluggish and by some measures still incomplete. In this paper, we break down aggregate employment during the Recession and the recovery into changes across industries and occupations. There is a clear...

Maxime Cauchoix, Alexis Chaine, E. Hermer, and J. Morrand-Ferron

vol. 7, n. 12945, 2017

Animal cognitive abilities have traditionally been studied in the lab, but studying cognition in nature could provide several benefits including reduced stress and reduced impact on life-history traits. However, it is not yet clear to what extent cognitive abilities can be properly measured in the...

Michel Le Breton, and Karine Van Der Straeten

vol. 127, 2017, pp. 637–736

L’objet de cet article est d’offrir une présentation synthétique des principaux travaux théoriques et empiriques portant sur la formation des coalitions électorales et gouvernementales et utilisant comme socle méthodologique la théorie des jeux coopératifs avec ou sans utilité transférable.

Alexandre de Cornière, and Rodrigo Montes

vol. 16, n. 3, 2017, pp. 291–305

This paper studies how product customization and consumer privacy affect a monopolist’s incentives to engage in perfect price discrimination. We consider a monopolist that faces an ex ante choice to commit to price discrimination or to a uniform price. We introduce a simple model in which a...