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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...
Daniel L. Chen, and Martin Schonger
September 2023
The strategy method (SM) is, in practice, subject to a possibly severe economic-theoretical bias. Although many studies utilize SM to examine responses to rare or off-equilibrium behaviors unattainable through direct elicitation (DE), they ignore the fact that the strategic equivalence between SM...
Charlotte Cavaillé, and Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 61, n. 3, September 2023, pp. 958–976
Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers' understanding of the political...
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, Philippe Le Coent, Valentin David-Legleye, and Véronique Delannoy
vol. 50, n. 4, September 2023, p. 1401–1427
Payments for Environmental Services (PESs) are increasingly used to foster farmers’ adoption of greener practices, but their effectiveness is often undermined by low enrollment. In a large randomized field experiment (N = 20,000), we test several non-monetary incentives to increase enrollment into...
Jean Tirole
vol. 15, September 2023, pp. 573–605
Tech giants' dominance does not confront us with an unpalatable choice between laissez-faire and populist interventions. This article takes stock of available knowledge, considers desirable adaptations of regulation in the digital age, and draws some conclusions for policy reform.
Olivier Jean Blanchard, Christian Gollier, and Jean Tirole
vol. 15, September 2023, pp. 689–722
Climate change poses an existential threat. Theoretical and empirical research suggest that carbon pricing and green R&D support are the right tools, but their implementation can be improved. Other policies, such as standards, bans, and targeted subsidies, also all have a role to play, but they...
Léo Fitouchi, and Manvir Singh
vol. 44, n. 5, September 2023, pp. 502–514
Fines, corporal punishments, and other procedures of punitive justice recur across small-scale societies. Although they are often assumed to enforce group norms, we here propose the relation-restoration hypothesis of punitive justice, according to which punitive procedures function to restore...
Piret Avila, and Laurent Lehmann
vol. 573, n. 111598, September 2023
The cost of germline maintenance gives rise to a trade-off between lowering the deleterious mutation rate and investing in life history functions. Therefore, life history and the mutation rate coevolve, but this coevolution is not well understood. We develop a mathematical model to analyse the...
