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Marijn Keijzer
March 2022
Marijn Keijzer, and Michael Mas
vol. 5, n. 1, March 2022, pp. 1–28
There is public and scholarly debate about the effects of personalized recommender systems implemented in online social networks, online markets, and search engines. Some have warned that personalization algorithms reduce the diversity of information diets which confirms users’ previously held...
Nicolas Treich
As is customary in economics, the Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity adopts an anthropocentric approach: that is, among the millions of species on Earth, the Review accords a moral value to only one species; ours. Building on the literature in ethics, I explain why it is morally...
Marcel Boyer
vol. 48, n. 1, March 2022, pp. 1–10
In the assessment of the cost of public funds, there is a pervasive economic fallacy, which is frequently repeated by officials in both the private and public sectors as well as in academia: since the cost of borrowing is higher for a private sector firm than it is for a public sector firm, the...
Ingela Alger, and Jean-François Laslier
vol. 34, n. 2, March 2022
This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting—viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of information—in the light of evolutionarily founded partial Kantian morality. It is shown that, compared to electorates consisting of purely self-interested voters,...
Koen Jochmans
vol. 212, n. 110318, March 2022
This note looks at the properties of instrumental-variable estimators of models for non-negative outcomes in the presence of individual effects. We show that fixed-effect versions of the estimators of Mullahy (1997) and Windmeijer and Santos Silva (1997) are inconsistent under conventional...
Catherine Cazals, Thierry Magnac, Frank Rodriguez, Jonathan Pope, and Soterios Soteri
Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, and Victor Glass (eds.), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, March 2022
Klaus Nordhausen, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen
vol. 188, n. 104844, March 2022
Scatter matrices generalize the covariance matrix and are useful in many multivariate data analysis methods, including well-known principal component analysis (PCA), which is based on the diagonalization of the covariance matrix. The simultaneous diagonalization of two or more scatter matrices goes...
David Bardey, Danilo Aristizabal, Santiago Gomez, and Bibiana Saenz
vol. 46, n. 1, February 2022
Developing a database that includes 59 countries, our study sheds light on the role of mobile telecommunications markets' concentration on countries' competitiveness. Performing several estimations and using an instrumental variable that aims to explain the degree of concentration in mobile phone...
Rey Dang, Michel Simioni, Lubica Hikkerova, and Jean-Michel Sahut
n. 181, February 2022
This study re-examines the relationship between women on corporate boards (WOCB) and corporate social performance (CSP) for a sample of companies from the Fortune 1000 ranking over the period 2004 to 2018 (ranked from 501 to 1000). To take into account the complex and non-linear relationship as...
