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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...
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...
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...
Michael Becher, and Sylvain Brouard
vol. 66, n. 1, January 2022, pp. 106–122
Although executives in many democracies have constitutional powers to circumvent the majoritarian legislative process to make policy, political scientists know relatively little about whether and when ordinary people hold executives accountable for the process they use. To study this issue beyond...
Laurent Miclo, and Pierre Patie
vol. 2301, January 2022, pp. 117–141, Springer
Markovian intertwining relations between two Markov semigroups are related to the partial inclusion of the spectra of their generators, at least for finite ergodic processes. We check the limitations of this observation by investigating the Markov intertwining relations between the Ehrenfest, Yule...
Mamadou Thiam, Jean-Claude Kouakou Brou, and Benur Andrade Varela
vol. 36, n. 4, December 2021, pp. 519–548
As a result of COVID-19, the export of medical goods has been subject to various global restrictions. Consequently, several countries have increased the supply of medical goods to alleviate the effects of this health crisis. This study entails a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of...
David Martimort, Jérôme Pouyet, and Thomas Tregouet
vol. 79, n. 102791, December 2021
An incumbent seller contracts with a buyer under the threat of entry. The contract stipulates a price and a penalty for breach if the buyer later switches to the entrant. Sellers are heterogenous in terms of the gross surplus they provide to the buyer. The buyer is privately informed on her...
Manh-Hung Nguyen, Dung P. Le, and Thang T. Vo
2021
This article investigates the impact of flood risk on vulnerability and welfare at the household level in Vietnam. The analytical sample is taken from a household survey conducted in a north central Vietnam community through a three-stage stratified random sampling method. The propensity score...
Christine Thomas-Agnan, Thibault Laurent, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Thi-Huong-An Nguyen, Raja Chakir, and Anna Lungarska
Peter Filzmoser, Karel Hron, Josep Antoni Martín-Fernández, and Javier Palarea-Albaladejo (eds.), 2021
Econometric land use models study determinants of land use shares of different classes: “agriculture”, “forest”, “urban” and “other” for example. Land use shares have a compositional nature as well as an important spatial dimension. We compare two compositional regression models with a spatial...
Henrik Andersson
Roger Vickerman (ed.), 2021
Individuals and society value safety, but safety does not have an easily available market price. This is a problem for cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which is a powerful tool to evaluate government policies, as it requires that all benefits and costs are measured in a common metric, which usually is...
