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Philippe De Donder, and Stefan Ambec
vol. 111, December 2021
Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
Leah Rosenzweig, Bence Bago, Adam Berinsky, and David Rand
2021
Do emotions we experience after reading headlines help us discern true from false information or cloud our judgement? Understanding whether emotions are associated with distinguishing truth from fiction and sharing information has implications for interventions designed to curb the spread of...
Christian Gollier
Francesco Caselli, Rick van der Ploeg, and Alexander Ludwig (eds.), CEPR, 2021
Olivier De Groote, and Koen Declercq
vol. 36, n. 7, 2021, pp. 898–916
We analyze the impact of choosing an elite school on high school graduation in an early tracking system in Flanders (Belgium). Whereas elite schools offer only an academic track, most other schools offer multiple tracks. On average, students experience a 3.3 percentage point increase in the...
Bruno Jullien, and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
vol. 54, n. 100880, 2021
We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular, we underline the role of dynamics, but also of...
Gladys Barragan, and Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 110, n. 12, December 2021, pp. 3302–3304
Christophe Bontemps, and Valérie Orozco
Abdelaati Daouia, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen (eds.), 2021
Sandrine Casanova, and Eve Leconte
In survey analysis, the estimation of the cumulative distribution function (cdf) is of great interest as it facilitates the derivation of mean/median estimators for both populations and sub-populations (i.e. domains). We focus on small domains and consider the case where the response variable is...
Alban Thomas
We present an estimation method for agricultural crop yield functions, when unobserved productivity depends on water availability that is only partially observed. Using the setting of Bayesian non-linear filtering for estimating Hidden Markov Models, we discuss joint estimation of state variables...
Olivier de Mouzon, Thibault Laurent, and Michel Le Breton
Abdelaati Daouia, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen (eds.), chapter 32, 2021, p. 633–652
