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Pierre Dubois, and Tomislav Vukina
vol. 16, n. 3, September 2016, pp. 1239–1272
We study the effects of the change in contract length on the agents’ incentives to invest and exert effort. We present an agent’s dynamic decision model that explicitly deals with two types of investments and directly allows for contract regime switching by varying the probability of contract...
Renato Gomes, and Alessandro Pavan
vol. 11, n. 3, September 2016, pp. 1005–1052
We study centralized many-to-many matching in markets where agents have private information about (vertical) characteristics that determine match values. Our analysis reveals how matching patterns reflect cross-subsidization between sides. Agents are endogenously partitioned into consumers and...
James K. Hammitt, Lisa A. Robinson, and Richard Zeckhauser
vol. 10, n. 2, September 2016, pp. 308–328
Before promulgating a major environmental, health, or safety regulation, U.S. government agencies are generally expected to analyze the distribution of its impacts as well as its total costs and benefits. We review several regulatory analyses to determine whether this expectation is being met. We...
Mohamed Saleh
vol. 76, n. 3, September 2016, pp. 697–735
Angel Lopez, and Patrick Rey
vol. 64, n. 3, September 2016, pp. 436–465
This article analyzes competition between two asymmetric networks, an incumbent and a new entrant. Networks compete in non-linear tarifs and may charge different prices for on-net and off-net calls. When access charges are high, this allows the incumbent to foreclose the market in a profitable way...
Georg Nöldeke, and Jorge Peña
vol. 99, September 2016, pp. 71–81
Ragui Assaad, and Mohamed Saleh
September 2016
This paper examines the effect of increased local supply of schooling on intergenerational mobility in education in Jordan. We use a unique data set that links individual data on own schooling and parents’ schooling for adults, from a household survey, with the annual supply of schools in the sub-...
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van Der Straeten (eds.)
Springer, September 2016
This book contains 16 contributions that were presented in the workshop ’Voting experiments’, organized by the editors in Montreal on March 28-29, 2014. This workshop, where presentations were selected after an open call for papers, was organized within the framework of the Making Electoral...
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van Der Straeten
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van Der Straeten (eds.), Springer, chapter 3, September 2016, pp. 215–236
The chapter studies individual-level strategic voting in run-off elections and makes two contributions. On the theoretical side, we propose a typology of the strategic situations a voter can face and of the kind of reasoning that the rational voter should perform in such situations. On the...
Paul Seabright
vol. 175, September 2016, pp. 201–219
