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Thomas Ragel, and Bruno Ziliotto
April 2025
Gabriel Ulyssea, Matteo Bobba, Lucie Gadenne, and Mariaflavia Harari
vol. 6, n. 2, April 2025
Most low- and middle-income countries are characterised by a large informal sector, which implies that a substantial fraction of economic activity and livelihoods in these countries goes on completely unregulated. This has important implications for the behaviour of firms, workers, families, and...
Philippe De Donder, David Bardey, and Vera Zaporozhets
vol. 4, n. 26, April 2025
We review the medico-economic literature assessing the economic value of diagnostic and prognostic tests, with a focus on innovative and, more specifically, companion tests. Our analysis begins with a summary of systematic reviews that provide a descriptive synthesis of existing findings rather...
Philippe De Donder, Humberto Llavador, Stefan Penczynski, John E. Roemer, and Roberto Vélez
The vaccination game exhibits positive externalities. The standard game-theoretic approach assumes that parents make decisions according to the Nash protocol, which is ndividualistic and non-cooperative. However, in more solidaristic societies, parents may behave cooperatively, optimizing according...
Jorge Ale-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, Jing Li, and Mathias Reynaert
We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider a case of three German automakers colluding to reduce the effectiveness of...
Giacomo Lemoli
vol. 58, n. 5, April 2025, p. 890–923
This paper studies the relationship between ethnic media, which produce content in a minority language, and the success of ethnic parties. I argue that, by embedding cultural traits in entertainment products, media outlets can shape the salience of group identity, which helps parties’ mobilization...
Alexandre de Cornière, Andrea Mantovani, and Shiva Shekhar
vol. 71, n. 4, April 2025, pp. 3340–3356
We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogeneous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...
George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja, and Tewodros Tebekew
vol. 73, n. 3, April 2025
We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority to understand how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in their daily work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: a standard game, a game with a threshold...
Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen, and Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 13, n. 2, April 2025, pp. 337–353
Olivier De Groote
vol. 43, n. 2, April 2025
I investigate high school tracking policies using a dynamic discrete choice model of study programs and unobserved effort. I estimate the model using data from Flanders (Belgium) and perform an ex ante evaluation of a policy that encourages underperforming students to switch to less academically...
