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Thomas Bassanetti, Stéphane Cezera, Maxime Delacroix, Ramon Escobedo, Adrien Blanchet, Clément Sire, and Guy Théraulaz
vol. 120, n. 42 (e2307880120), October 2023
Stigmergy is a generic coordination mechanism widely used by animal societies, in which traces left by individuals in a medium guide and stimulate their subsequent actions. In humans, new forms of stigmergic processes have emerged through the development of online services that extensively use the...
Victor Gay, and Pauline Grosjean
vol. 90, n. 101550, October 2023
This article describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la France database. This database contains individual-level data on the universe of the 1.3 million French fatalities of the Great War who were officially recognized as war victims. It provides information on each soldier’s first...
Thibault Laurent, Paula Margaretic, and Christine Thomas-Agnan
vol. 55, n. 4, October 2023, pp. 728–758
We extend the impact decomposition proposed by LeSage and Thomas-Agnan (2015) in the spatial interaction model to a more general framework, where the sets of origins and destinations can be different, and where the relevant attributes characterizing the origins do not coincide with those of the...
Vincent Rebeyrol
vol. 133, n. 655, October 2023, p. 2807–2827
This paper shows that non-tariff measures may fully respect the non-discrimination principle of the World Trade Organisation and still act as a protectionist device. Non-tariff measures that raise costs of all firms induce some exit, reallocating market shares towards the most efficient firms. The...
Péter Bayer, György Kozics, and Nora Gabriella Szöke
vol. 213, n. 105720, October 2023
We study public goods games played on networks with possibly non-reciprocal relationships between players. These include one-sided relationships, mutual but unequal relationships, and parasitism. It is known that many learning processes converge to the game's Nash equilibrium if interactions are...
Abhit Bhandari, Horacio Larreguy, and John Marshall
vol. 67, n. 4, October 2023, pp. 1040–1066
Political accountability may be constrained by the reach and relevance of information campaigns in developing democracies and—upon receiving information—voters' ability and will to hold politicians accountable. To illuminate voter‐level constraints and information relevance absent dissemination...
Mariann Ollar, and Antonio Penta
vol. 90, n. 5, October 2023, p. 2517–2554
We study robust mechanism design in environments in which agents commonly believe that others’ types are identically distributed, but we do not assume that the actual distribution is common knowledge, nor that it is known to the designer. First, we characterize all incentive compatible transfers...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Thierry Verdier
vol. 21(5), October 2023, pp. 1772–1820
This paper elucidates the willingness of an autocrat to push through institutional reforms in a context where traditional authorities represented by religious clerics are averse to them and where the military control the means of repression and can potentially stage a coup. We show that...
Marcel Boyer
McGill-Queen's University Press, October 2023, 248 pages
There is a fundamental complementarity between social democracy and competition. A true social democracy is based on a clear definition of the respective roles of the public (governmental) and competitive (private) sectors in the provision of public and social goods and services (PSGS), such as...
Michele Bisceglia
vol. 158, n. 104532, September 2023
Due to the switching behavior of online consumers, news outlets increasingly compete with each other to attract audience for each single news item they produce, rather than for complete editions of their newspapers: the so called unbundling of journalism. Using a standard Hotelling model, I show...
