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Justin Pappas Johnson, and Andrew Rhodes

vol. 52, n. 3, September 2021, pp. 633–661

We investigate mergers in markets where quality differences between products are central and firms may reposition their product lines by adding or removing products of different qualities following a merger. Such mergers are materially different from those studied in the existing literature....

Philippe De Donder, and Marie-Louise Leroux

September 2021

We study the demand for actuarially fair Long Term Care (LTC hereafter) insurance in a setting where autonomous agents only care for daily life consumption while dependent agents also care for LTC expenditures. We assume that dependency decreases the marginal utility of daily life consumption. We...

Eric Reinhart, and Daniel L. Chen

September 2021

Mass incarceration is known to foster infectious disease outbreaks, amplification of infectious diseases in surrounding communities, and exacerbation of health disparities in disproportionately policed communities. To date, however, policy interventions intended to achieve epidemic mitigation in US...

Raymond Duch, Laurence Roope, Mara Violato, MF Becerra, T. Robinson, Jean-François Bonnefon, Jorge Friedman, Peter Loewen, P. Mamidi, Alessia Melegaro, M. Blanco, Juan F. Vargas, J. Seither, P. Candio, AG Cruz, X. Hua, Adrian Barnett, and Philip Clarke

vol. 118, n. 8, September 2021

How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients that varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample includes diverse countries from all continents. The...

Stephanie Assad, Emilio Calvano, Giacomo Calzolari, Robert Clark, Daniel Ershov, Justin Johnson, Sergio Pastorello, Andrew Rhodes, Lei XU, Matthijs Wildenbeest, and Vincenzo Denicolò

vol. 37, n. 3, September 2021, p. 459–478

Markets are being populated with new generations of pricing algorithms, powered with Artificial Intelligence, that have the ability to autonomously learn to operate. This ability can be both a source of efficiency and cause of concern for the risk that algorithms autonomously and tacitly learn to...

Claude Crampes, and Yassine Lefouili

n. 15, September 2021, pp. 37–41

This paper investigates the trade-offs associated with the digitalization of the energy sector. Arguing that digitalization has both bright and dark sides, we study the extent to which it can help make energy systems efficient and sustainable. We first discuss how digitalization affects the...

Zachary Garfield

vol. 3, n. e45, August 2021

Conflicts are ubiquitous between individuals as well as between groups. Effective conflict resolution is essential for individual well-being and group functioning and often involves leadership dynamics. The evolutionary human sciences have suggested that conflict resolution is shaped by...

Bruno Biais, Christophe Bisière, Matthieu Bouvard, and Catherine Casamatta

Antonio Fernandez Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Maurice Herlihy, and Maria Potop Butucaru (eds.), August 2021

Victor Gay

vol. 54, n. 4, August 2021, pp. 189–207

This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing general administrative constituencies (départements,...

Zoe Purcell, Stephanie Howarth, Colin Wastell, Andrew Roberts, and Naomi Sweller

vol. 81, August 2021

The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) has been used in thousands of studies across several fields of behavioural research. The CRT has fascinated scholars because it commonly elicits incorrect answers despite most respondents possessing the necessary knowledge to reach the correct answer. Traditional...