advanced search

Thomas S. Kraft, Daniel Cummings, Vivek Venkataraman, Sarah Alami, Bret A. Beheim, Paul L. Hooper, Edmond Seabright, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Karen L. Endicott, Kirk M. Endicott, and Michael Gurven

vol. 378, n. 1868, January 2023

Cooperation in food acquisition is a hallmark of the human species. Given that costs and benefits of cooperation vary among production regimes and work activities, the transition from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture is likely to have reshaped the structure of cooperative subsistence networks....

Aksel Erbahar, and Vincent Rebeyrol

vol. 140, n. 103693, January 2023

This paper shows that manufacturing exporters export goods that they have not produced and thus also act as trade intermediaries. The geographical dimension of the data reveals that almost half of these exports of “sourced” products are purely intermediated: to many destinations, firms export...

Augustin Tapsoba

vol. 160, n. 102975, January 2023

The fear of exposure to conflict events often triggers changes in the behavior of eco-nomic agents even before/without any manifestation of violence in a given area. It gen-erates a treatment status (exposure to the adverse e˙ects of conflict) that goes beyond violence incidence. This paper...

Helmuth Cremer, and Chiara Canta

vol. 75, n. 1, January 2023, pp. 117–141

We study the optimal design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when the utility of informal caregivers is taken into account. Informal care is exchange-based. Children’s cost of providing care is continuously distributed over some interval and is not observable. Parents choose a rule...

Alexandre de Cornière, and Miklos Sarvary

vol. 69, n. 1, January 2023

The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a simple model to understand the impact of third-party content bundling by a social platform that has a monopoly on showing user-generated content...

Christian Gouriéroux, and Joann Jasiak

vol. 232, n. 1, January 2023, pp. 35–51

A major difficulty in the analysis of Covid-19 transmission is that many infected individuals are asymptomatic. For this reason, the total counts of infected individuals and of recovered immunized individuals are unknown, especially during the early phase of the epidemic. In this paper, we consider...

Pascal Bégout

vol. 2, n. 31, 2022, p. 241–252

François Seyler, and Arthur Silve

vol. 31, n. 2, 2022, pp. 185–190

Marion Mercier, Arthur Silve, and Benjamin Tremblay-Auger

vol. 31, n. 2, 2022, pp. 191–196

Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Estelle Malavolti

Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, and Victor Glass (eds.), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022

The economic and societal roles of digital platforms are a hotly debated topic. They have been under close scrutiny by European competition authorities for a while and their US counterparts have now followed suit. The subject is also receiving increasing attention in the media and in political...