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Matthew Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 75, n. 102412, January 2021
The social value of risk reduction (SVRR) is the marginal social value of reducing an individual’s fatality risk, as measured by some social welfare function (SWF). This Article investigates SVRR, using a lifetime utility model in which individuals are differentiated by age, lifetime income profile...
Florence Lespiau, Astrid Hopfensitz, and Gwenaël Kaminski
vol. 82, n. 102335, January 2021
Birth order supposedly influences individuals’ cooperative attitudes: firstborns are more family-oriented and favor their kin, while laterborns are more likely to turn to non-kin. However little direct experimental evidence exists concerning costly resource sharing between full siblings. The...
Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni, Thomas Mariotti, and Gwenaël Piaser
vol. 125, January 2021, pp. 79–93
We study competing-mechanism games under exclusive competition: principals first simultaneously post mechanisms, after which agents simultaneously choose to participate and communicate with at most one principal. In this setting, which is common to competing-auction and competitive-search...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Maleke Fourati, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, and Paul Seabright
vol. 29, n. 1, January 2021, pp. 3–34
Are religious believers more prosocial than other people? In a trust game field experiment with 774 subjects in Haiti, we elicit willingness to pay to play in the presence of religious images, and argue that this can be interpreted as a measure of the strength of religiosity. More religious...
Christian Gouriéroux, and Alain Monfort
vol. 17, January 2021, pp. 1–22
Mathias Reynaert
vol. 88, n. 1, January 2021, pp. 454–488
This paper studies the introduction of an EU-wide emission standard on the automobile market. Using panel data from 1998-2011, I find that firms decreased emission ratings by 14%. Firms use technology adoption and gaming of emission tests to decrease emissions, rather than shifting the sales mix or...
Margot Dazey
vol. 27, n. 1, January 2021, pp. 189–205
Islamist movements are often considered the epitomes of transnational movements; however, little is known about the concrete workings of their transnational ambitions. In investigating the evolution of Muslim activists in France from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, this article shows that their...
Olivier de Mouzon, Thibault Laurent, Michel Le Breton, and Issofa Moyouwou
Mostopha Diss, and Vincent Merlin (eds.), January 2021, Springer Verlag
This paper is dedicated to the measurement of (or lack of) electoral justice in the 2010Electoral College using a methodology based on the expected influence of the vote of each citizen for three probability models. Our first contribution is to revisit and reproduce the results obtained by Owen (...
Tiziana Assenza, P. Heemeijer, C.H. Hommes, and D. Massaro
vol. 17, January 2021, pp. 170–186
The New Keynesian theory of inflation determination is tested in this paper by means of laboratory experiments. We find that the Taylor principle is a necessary condition to ensure convergence to the inflation target, but it is not sufficient. Using a behavioral model of expectation formation, we...
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Kerstin Roeder
vol. 73, n. 1, January 2021, pp. 225–247
