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Andreas Gerster, and Stefan Lamp

June 2024

This paper investigates the impact of a large electricity tax exemption on production levels, employment, and input choices in the German manufacturing industry. For two policy designs, we show that exempted plants increase their electricity use. This effect is larger under a notched exemption...

Koen Jochmans

vol. 242, n. 2 (105805), June 2024

This paper concerns the analysis of network data when unobserved node-specific heterogeneity is present. We postulate a weighted version of the classic stochastic block model, where nodes belong to one of a finite number of latent communities and the placement of edges between them and any weight...

Helia Costa, Lilas Demmou, Guido Franco, and Stefan Lamp

vol. 239, n. 111741, June 2024

Despite ambitious carbon reduction targets set by policymakers worldwide, current investments fall well short of the net-zero emissions scenario. This paper investigates the impact of financing constraints (FCs) on green investment among large, publicly listed firms across diverse sectors and...

Victor Gay, Paula Gobbi, and Marc Goni

vol. 84, June 2024, pp. 49–60

This article describes the construction and content of an atlas of local jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France: bailliages. Bailliages were at the center of the Ancien Régime's jurisdictional apparatus: they administered the ordinary royal justice, delineated the area of influence of heterogeneous...

Albert J. Menkveld, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Michael Razen, Utz Weitzel, Fany Declerck, and Sophie Moinas

vol. 79, n. 3, June 2024, pp. 2339–2390

In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation across...

Yassine Lefouili, Leonardo Madio, and Ying Lei Toh

vol. 72, n. 2, June 2024, pp. 662–684

We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist--who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties--and consumer surplus. If the share of privacy-concerned users is...

Michel Moreaux, Jean-Pierre Amigues, Gerard van der Meijden, and Cees Withagen

vol. 125, n. 102976, May 2024

Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, and Smith Craig Damian

May 2024, pp. 63–67

Abstract This article discusses real-world projects using algorithms to match resettled refugees with sponsors and services. The authors argue that when done right, algorithms can support larger-scale and better-informed resettlement. Ethically informed algorithmic matching and refugee resettlement...

Valerio Capraro, Austin Lentsch, Daron Acemoglu, Selin Akgun, Aisel Akhmedova, Ennio Bilancini, and Jean-François Bonnefon

May 2024, p. 71

Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of the potential impacts of generative AI on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains...

Daniel L. Chen, Sandeep Bhupatiraju, and Kannan Venkataramanan

vol. 1, n. 1, May 2024, pp. 49–68

Judicial documents and judgments are a rich source of information about legal cases, litigants, and judicial decision-makers. Natural language processing (NLP) based approaches have recently received much attention for their ability to decipher implicit information from text. NLP researchers have...