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Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, and César Hidalgo

vol. 58, n. 9, 2023, pp. 1659–1673

Did migrants make Paris a mecca for the arts and Vienna a beacon of classical music? Or was their rise a pure consequence of local actors? We use data on more than 22,000 historical individuals born between the years 1000 and 2000 to estimate the contribution of famous immigrants, emigrants and...

Maria Kleshnina

vol. 13, December 2023, p. 1035–1048

Maria Kleshnina, Sabrina Streipert, Joel Brown, and Katerina Stankova

vol. 13, December 2023, pp. 1130–1155

Nature exhibits rapid evolution in response to human activities. When using natural resources for their own profit, humans should account for such responses. Stackelberg evolutionary games (SEG) offer a method for modeling interactions between a rational leader (humans) and evolutionary followers (...

Sébastien Lecocq, Valérie Orozco, Christine Boizot-Szantai, Céline Bonnet, and Fabrice Etilé

vol. 541, 2023, pp. 17–32

Public health authorities advocate the introduction of alcohol pricing policies in the form of tax reform and/or a minimum unit price based on the pure alcohol content of products. We use Kantar WorldPanel household purchase data to describe the distortions in the current tax system, favouring wine...

José De Sousa, Amélie Guillin, Julie Lochard, and Arthur Silve

vol. 216, December 2023, pp. 332–353

Industries with more complex input-output relationships are comparatively larger in U.S. states with higher levels of trust. This specialization pattern is not driven by differences in the states' and industries' other observable characteristics. Given the importance of complexity in economic...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Alice Mesnard, and Tiffanie Perrault

n. 216, December 2023, pp. 62–101

We model consumer choices for recreational cannabis in a risky environment and its supply under prohibition and legalization. While legalization reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis consumption. This trade-off can be overcome by combining legalization with sanctions...

Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Christine Thomas-Agnan, Thibault Laurent, and Camille Mondon

Mengxi Yi, and Klaus Nordhausen (eds.), Springer, Cham, 2023

Céline Bonnet, and P. Leveneur

vol. 74, n. 5, 2023, pp. 1–27

Céline Bonnet, and Vincent Réquillart

vol. 51, n. 101277, December 2023

To assess the impact of taxation on the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) most economic studies using household data consider the average consumer. Individual consumption is, however, very heterogeneous. In this paper, we propose a three-step methodology to evaluate the impact of SSB...

Brian Love, Yassine Lefouili, and Christian Helmers

vol. 25, n. 1, 2023, p. 300–337

To what extent and with what effect do owners of standard-essential patents (SEPs) “hold-up” companies that produce standard-compliant products? To explore this question, we construct measures of opportunistic patent licensing behaviors using detailed information collected from the dockets of U.S....