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Edmond Awad, Bence Bago, Jean-François Bonnefon, Nicholas Christakis, Iyad Rahwan, and Azim Shariff
vol. 7, n. 2, 2022, pp. 1–9
Objective. When medical resources are scarce, clinicians must make difficult triage decisions. When these decisions affect public trust and morale, as was the case during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts will benefit from knowing which triage metrics have citizen support. Design. We conducted an...
Marie Brière, Sébastien Pouget, Martin Schmalz, and Loredana Ureche-Rangau
chapter 12, 2022, pp. 295–324
This chapter studies the votes of institutional investors on shareholder resolutions instructing corporations to mitigate climate change externalities. Our sample includes 238 US fund families that voted on 14,409 different shareholder resolutions at 2,700 companies over the period from 2013 to...
Chon Van Le, Tuan Anh Luong, Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Viet-Ngu Hoang
December 2022
This paper adopts a two-stage stochastic frontier analysis framework to analyse the roles of foreign and domestic capital in the aggregate production of gross domestic product (GDP) and CO2-equivalent emissions across 36 OECD countries from 1990 to 2014. The first stage estimates a quadratic output...
Cécile Aubert, Hai-Anh H. Dang, and Manh-Hung Nguyen
vol. XXXVII, 2022, pp. 43–77
This article studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two articles and their theoretical and empirical results...
Gilles Lafforgue, Jean-Pierre Amigues, Ujjayant Chakravorty, and Michel Moreaux
n. 147, 2022, pp. 51–78
In order to encourage substitution of fossil fuels by cleaner renewables, regulatory agencies have generally chosen between two types of renewable energy standards. They have either mandated a minimum volume of renewable energy as in the case of ethanol in transport fuels, and for electricity in...
Jérôme Renault
2022
James K. Hammitt, and Nicolas Treich
Matthew Adler, and Ole F. Norheim (eds.), Cambridge University Press, chapter 7, 2022, pp. 317 – 359
Environmental, transportation, occupational, and other regulations that reduce fatality risk are frequently evaluated using benefit-cost analysis (BCA). We examine how risk reductions are valued under BCA, utilitarian and prioritarian SWFs. The social value of risk reduction (SVRR) to an individual...
James K. Hammitt, Jin-Tan Liu, and Jin-Long Liu
vol. 65, December 2022, p. 239–260
The value of a change in mortality risk is conventionally described by the marginal rate of substitution between income and mortality risk–the value per statistical life (VSL). The income elasticity of VSL is important for estimating how the value of mortality risk varies with time (for evaluating...
Aaron D. Lightner, Zachary Garfield, and Edward H. Hagen
vol. 12, n. 3, 2022
Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Josep Antoni Martín-Fernández, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, and Christine Thomas-Agnan
vol. 36, n. 12, December 2022
Compositional methods have been successfully integrated into the chemometric toolkit to analyse and model different types of data generated by modern high-throughput technologies. Within this compositional framework, the focus is put on the relative information conveyed in the data by using log-...
