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Aaron D. Blackwell, Melissa Emery Thompson, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Benjamin C. Trumble
vol. 45, October 2015, pp. 130–139
Paul Beaudry, Alban Moura, and Franck Portier
vol. 135, October 2015, pp. 108–111
The cyclical behavior of the relative price of investment goods plays an important role in many modern macroeconomic models. In this paper we examine the behavior of several measures of the relative price of investment goods for the U.S. economy over the last fifty years. In particular, we examine...
Matthew Adler, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 62, n. 2, October 2015, pp. 279–308
Prioritarianism is the ethical view that gives greater weight to well-being changes affecting individuals at lower well-being levels. This view is influential both in moral philosophy, and in theoretical work on social choice—where it is captured by a social welfare function (“SWF”) summing a...
Jean-Pierre Amigues, Gilles Lafforgue, and Michel Moreaux
vol. 35, n. 4, October 2015, pp. 2242–2251
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of the most promising abatement options to curb CO2 emissions of the energy sector. Usually, in models where the atmospheric carbon stock is constrained to not exceed a given ceiling and under constant average costs, it is never optimal to deploy CCS before...
Nicolas Chopin, Sébastien Gadat, Benjamin Guedj, Arnaud Guyader, and Elodie Vernet
vol. 51, October 2015, pp. 293–319
This paper proposes to review some recent developments in Bayesian statistics for high dimensional data. After giving some brief motivations in a short introduction, we describe new advances in the understanding of Bayes posterior computation as well as theoretical contributions in non parametric...
Claude Crampes, and Thomas-Olivier Léautier
vol. 48, n. 2, October 2015, pp. 169–193
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, and Angelo Zago
vol. 42, n. 5, October 2015, pp. 707–711
Michel Le Breton, and Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 165, n. 1, October 2015, pp. 103–122
In this paper, we present a contribution to the analysis of the relationship between influence/power measurement and utility measurement, the two most popular social objective criteria used when evaluating voting mechanisms. For one particular probabilistic model describing the preferences of the...
Jorge Peña, Georg Nöldeke, and Laurent Lehmann
vol. 382, October 2015, pp. 122–136
Christian Gollier
October 29, 2015
