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Terence Daniel Das Dores Cruz, Isabel Thielmann, Simon Columbus, Catherine Molho, Junhui Wu, Francesca Righetti, Reinout De Vries, Antonis Koutsoumpis, Paul A.M. Van Lange, Bianca Beersma, and Daniel Balliet

vol. 376, n. 1838, November 2021

Gossip—a sender communicating to a receiver about an absent third party—is hypothesized to impact reputation formation, partner selection, and cooperation. Laboratory experiments have found that people gossip about others' cooperativeness and that they use gossip to condition their cooperation....

Catherine Molho, and Junhui Wu

vol. 376, n. 1838, November 2021

Punishment and reputation-based mechanisms play a major role in supporting the evolution of human cooperation. Theoretical accounts and field observations suggest that humans use multiple tactics to intervene against offences—including confrontation, gossip and ostracism—which have unique benefits...

Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu, and Manh-Hung Nguyen

vol. 104, n. 105639, November 2021

Preliminary evidence indicates that pollution increases the severity and likelihood of COVID-19 infections similar to many other infectious diseases. This paper models the inter-action of pollution and disease preventive actions, either pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical interventions, on...

Olivier Faugeras, and Ludger Rüschendorf

vol. 186, n. 104802, November 2021

The mass transportation approach to multivariate quantiles in Chernozhukov et al. (2017) was modified in Faugeras and Rüschendorf (2017) by a two steps procedure. In the first step, a mass transportation problem from a spherical reference measure to the copula is solved and combined in the second...

Bruno Biais, Florian Heider, and Marie Hoerova

vol. 88, n. 6, November 2021, pp. 2654–2686

In order to share risk, protection buyers trade derivatives with protection sellers. Protection sellers’ actions affect the riskiness of their assets, which can create counterparty risk. Because these actions are unobservable, moral hazard limits risk sharing. To mitigate this problem, privately...

Kostanca Dhima, Sona Golder, Laura Stephenson, and Karine Van Der Straeten

vol. 73, n. 102381, October 2021

Existing research about the effects of electoral systems on descriptive representation is mixed. In this paper, we test implications of theoretical arguments about the impact of electoral rules on voters’ propensity to vote for women candidates. We conducted a survey experiment during the 2017...

Shahid Naeem, Sarah Gould Bruner, and Anouch Missirian

vol. 31, n. 19, October 2021

The science underpinning biodiversity's importance to human well-being seems to be taken up little by environmental decision makers. Since the 1950s, ecological, evolutionary and environmental research has pointed to the importance of biodiversity as a significant factor influencing the stability...

India Schneider-Crease, Aaron D. Blackwell, Thomas S. Kraft, Melissa Emery Thompson, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Daniel Cummings, Jonathan Stieglitz, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 9, n. 1, October 2021, p. 349–359

Lukas Dargel

vol. 2, n. 10, October 2021

This article develops improved calculation techniques for estimating the spatial econometric interaction model of LeSage and Pace (2008) by maximum likelihood (MLE), Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and spatial two-stage least-squares (S2SLS). The refined estimation methods derive the...

Fériel Boulfani, Xavier Gendre, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, and Martina Salvignol

October 2021

The sizing of aircraft electrical generators mainly depends on the electrical loads installed in the aircraft. Currently, the generator capacity is estimated by summing the critical loads, but this method tends to overestimate the generator capacity. A new method to challenge this approach is to...