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Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan, and Azim Shariff

vol. 1, October 2017, pp. 694–696

Hayyan Alia, Cécile Bazart, Mohamed Ali Bchir, Serge Blondel, Mihaela Bonescu, Alexandrine Bornier, Joëlle Brouard, Nathalie Chappe, François Cochard, Alexandre Flage, Andrea Galeotti, Xavier Hollandts, Astrid Hopfensitz, Marianne Lefebvre, Mélody Leplat, Youenn Loheac, Cesar Mantilla, Guillermo Mateu, Guillaume Peron, Emmanuel Peterle, Emmanuel Petit, Eva Raiber, Julie Rosaz, Anne Rozan, Jean-Christian Tisserand, Marie-Claire Villeval, Marc Willinger, and Adam Zylbersztejn

September 2017

Emmanuel Thibault

vol. 68, n. 3, September 2017, pp. 333–351

Astrid Hopfensitz, and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

vol. 13, n. 3, September 2017, pp. 623–648

We analyze how Costa Rican coffee farmer's behavior in an experimental public good game depends on the type of mill where the farmers sell their coffee (Cooperative vs. privately owned mills), and on the background of their game partners (partners selling to same type of mill or not). We find that...

Alberto Grillo

vol. 172, n. 3-4, September 2017, pp. 465–482

The empirical literature on the effects of opinion polls on election outcomes has recently found substantial evidence of a bandwagon effect, defined as the phenomenon according to which the publication of opinion polls is advantageous to the candidate with the greatest support. This result is...

Roberto Sarkisian

vol. 8, n. 3, September 2017

This paper studies incentives provision when agents are characterized either by homo moralis preferences (Alger and Weibull, 2013, 2016), i.e. their utility is represented by a convex combination of selfish preferences and Kantian morality, or by altruism. In a moral hazard in teams setting with...

Silvia Goncalves, Ulrich Hounyo, and Nour Meddahi

vol. 33, n. 4, August 2017, pp. 791–838

The main contribution of this paper is to propose a bootstrap method for inference on integrated volatility based on the pre-averaging approach, where the pre-averaging is done over all possible overlapping blocks of consecutive observations. The overlapping nature of the pre-averaged returns...

Abdelaati Daouia, Thibault Laurent, and Hohsuk Noh

vol. 79, n. 9, August 2017, pp. 1–43

The package npbr is the first free specialized software for data edge and frontier analysis in the statistical literature. It provides a variety of functions for the best known and most innovative approaches to nonparametric boundary estimation. The selected methods are concerned with empirical,...

Jean-Pierre Florens, and Senay Sokullu

vol. 33, n. 4, August 2017, pp. 839–873

Carlos Berdejo, and Daniel L. Chen

vol. 60, n. 3, August 2017, pp. 479–496

We find field evidence for what experimental studies have documented regarding the contexts and characteristics that make individuals more susceptible to priming. Just before U.S. Presidential elections, judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals double the rate at which they dissent and vote along...