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Frédérique Fève, Thierry Magnac, Jonathan Pope, and Soterios Soteri
Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, and Victor Glass (eds.), chapter 8, October 2024, pp. 113–127
This chapter examines and estimates demand price elasticities for Royal Mail postal parcel volumes, using an econometric analysis of data from more than 40,000 Royal Mail customers followed each quarter over 5 years and distinguishing intensive and extensive margin elasticities.
Guillaume Carlier, Xavier Dupuis, Jean-Charles Rochet, and John Thanassoulis
vol. 114, n. 103025, October 2024
We provide an algorithm for solving multidimensional screening problems which are intractable analytically. The algorithm is a primal–dual algorithm which alternates between optimizing the primal problem of the surplus extracted by the principal and the dual problem of the optimal assignment to...
Farid Gasmi, Dorgyles Kouakou, Paul Noumba Um, and Pedro Rojas Milla
vol. 32, n. 4, October 2024, pp. 1193–1243
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the social contract (SC) in MENA based on a simple model synthesizing three main characteristics of a SC linking governments and citizens: Participation, Protection, and Provision. Using this 3-P framework, we focus on the role of provision and...
Marcel Boyer
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, October 2024, 272 pages
Dans un contexte où les défis auxquels font face nos démocraties sociales et nos États providence menacent leur survie même, cet ouvrage propose une définition claire et une réorientation des rôles que peuvent jouer les secteurs public et privé. À l’aide de nouveaux modèles, l’auteur en revient...
Daniel L. Chen
vol. 169, n. 104835, October 2024
Politicians’ behavioral changes as an election nears have typically been attributed to the incentive effects of an election. I document that behavioral changes can occur even for unelected judges, using data from 1925 to 2002 on U.S. appellate judges, who are appointed for life. Exploiting monthly...
Michael Gurven, Yoann Buoro, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Katherine Sayre, Benjamin C. Trumble, Arild Pyhälä, Hillard Kaplan, Arild Angelsen, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Victoria Reyes-García
vol. 10, n. 43, October 2024
Subjective well-being (SWB) is often described as being U-shaped over adulthood, declining to a midlife slump and then improving thereafter. Improved SWB in later adulthood has been considered a paradox given age-related declines in health and social losses. While SWB has mostly been studied in...
Laurence Gaume, and Marion Desquilbet
vol. 4, n. e97, October 2024
The InsectChange database (van Klink et al. 2021) underlying the meta-analysis by van Klink et al. (2020a) compiles worldwide time series of the abundance and biomass of invertebrates reported as insects and arachnids, as well as ecological data likely to have influenced the observed trends. On the...
Amandine E. Visine, Adam H. Boyette, Yann Reische Ouamba, Sheina Lew-Levy, Mallika Sarma, and Haneul Jang
vol. 14, n. 24893, October 2024
Across cultures, mothers balance childcare with other labour. Hunter-gatherer mothers face a daily choice of whether to take infants on foraging trips or leave them with caregivers in the settlement, as well as deciding with whom to forage. Yet, it remains unclear how infant presence affects...
Matteo Bobba, Marco Pariguana, and Veronica Frisancho
October 2024
Felix Dammann, Néofytos Rodosthenous, and Stéphane Villeneuve
vol. 90, n. 52, October 2024
We introduce a non-zero-sum game between a government and a legislative body to study the optimal level of debt. Each player, with different time preferences, can intervene on the stochastic dynamics of the debt-to-GDP ratio via singular stochastic controls, in view of minimiz-ing non-continuously...
