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Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, and Santiago Levy

vol. 63, n. 1, February 2022, pp. 211–259

We develop a search and matching model where matches (jobs) can be formal or informal. Workers choose their level of schooling and search for an employee job either as unemployed or as self-employed. Firms post vacancies in each schooling market, decide the formality status of the job, and bargain...

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Christophe Gaillac, and Eric Gautier

vol. 28, n. 1, February 2022, pp. 504–524

We consider a linear model where the coefficients - intercept and slopes - are random and independent from regressors which support is a proper subset. When the slopes do not have heavy tails, the joint density of the random coecients is identied. Lower bounds on the supremum risk for the...

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Pascal Bégout, and Jesus Ildefonso Diaz

vol. 308, January 2022, pp. 252–285

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Tong Chen, Jean-Bernard Lasserre, Victor Magron, and Edouard Pauwels

vol. 81, January 2022, pp. 31–66

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Guy Alexander Cooper, Ming Liu, Jorge Peña, and Stuart Andrew West

vol. 13, n. 195, January 2022

In bacteria and other microorganisms, the cells within a population often show extreme phenotypic variation. Different species use different mechanisms to determine how distinct phenotypes are allocated between individuals, including coordinated, random, and genetic determination. However, it is...

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Alice Fabre, Thomas Planès, Scott Delbecq, Gilles Lafforgue, and Valérie Budinger

January 2022

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Marcel Boyer

Ottawa, vol. 37, January 2022, pp. 1–38

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology and the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage filed their Copyright Act review reports in 2019. Among their recommendations: the term extension of copyright, the new “termination right,” the amended copyright reversion...

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Jay J. Van Bavel, Aleksandra Cichocka, Valerio Capraro, Hallgeir Sjåstad, and Jane Conway

vol. 13, n. 517, January 2022

Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors that associated with...

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Maxime Derex

vol. 377, n. 1843, January 2022

Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)—defined as the process by which beneficial modifications are culturally transmitted and progressively accumulated over time—has long been argued to underlie the unparalleled diversity and complexity of human culture. In this paper, I argue that not just any kind...

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Marc Ivaldi, Milena J Petrova, and Miguel Urdanoz

vol. 115, January 2022, pp. 239–250

Airline alliances have a long history yet there is no academic consensus on how they affect price levels and their impact on price dispersion has not yet been studied. We address this question using a novel methodology motivated by the service homogenization and increased price competition in this...

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