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Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu, and Manh-Hung Nguyen

vol. 104, n. 105639, November 2021

Preliminary evidence indicates that pollution increases the severity and likelihood of COVID-19 infections similar to many other infectious diseases. This paper models the inter-action of pollution and disease preventive actions, either pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical interventions, on...

Margot Dazey

November 2021

Anti-Muslim hostility in Europe operates in a variety of forms and settings. While a rich body of work has highlighted the multifaceted stigmatization of Islam in European societies, little is known on how Muslims respond to it. Based on an ethnographic case study of a group of French Muslim...

Marcel Boyer

vol. 6, n. 2–3, November 2021, pp. 90–226

Several voices are rising to demand an in-depth reform of capitalism in the wake of the increase in income and wealth inequalities of the last four decades, the climate urgency in a local global world, and the financial crisis of 2007–2010. At the forefront of this movement are different groups...

Olivier Faugeras, and Ludger Rüschendorf

vol. 186, n. 104802, November 2021

The mass transportation approach to multivariate quantiles in Chernozhukov et al. (2017) was modified in Faugeras and Rüschendorf (2017) by a two steps procedure. In the first step, a mass transportation problem from a spherical reference measure to the copula is solved and combined in the second...

Catherine Molho, and Junhui Wu

vol. 376, n. 1838, November 2021

Punishment and reputation-based mechanisms play a major role in supporting the evolution of human cooperation. Theoretical accounts and field observations suggest that humans use multiple tactics to intervene against offences—including confrontation, gossip and ostracism—which have unique benefits...

David Bardey, Samuel Kembou Nzalé, and Bruno Ventelou

vol. 191(C), November 2021, pp. 472–500

We study physicians’ incentives to use personalised medicine techniques, replicating the physician’s trade-offs under the option of personalised medicine information. In a laboratory experiment conducted in two French Universities, prospective physicians played a real-effort game. We vary both the...

Emmanuelle Auriol, and Hillel Rapoport

n. 67, November 2021

Darius-Aurel Frank, Christian T. Elbaek, Caroline Kjaer Borsting, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Tobias Otterbring, and Sylvie Borau

vol. 16, n. 11 (e0259928), November 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact people worldwide–steadily depleting scarce resources in healthcare. Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises a much-needed relief but only if the technology gets adopted at scale. The present research investigates people’s intention to adopt medical AI...

Bruno Biais, Florian Heider, and Marie Hoerova

vol. 88, n. 6, November 2021, pp. 2654–2686

In order to share risk, protection buyers trade derivatives with protection sellers. Protection sellers’ actions affect the riskiness of their assets, which can create counterparty risk. Because these actions are unobservable, moral hazard limits risk sharing. To mitigate this problem, privately...

Terence Daniel Das Dores Cruz, Isabel Thielmann, Simon Columbus, Catherine Molho, Junhui Wu, Francesca Righetti, Reinout De Vries, Antonis Koutsoumpis, Paul A.M. Van Lange, Bianca Beersma, and Daniel Balliet

vol. 376, n. 1838, November 2021

Gossip—a sender communicating to a receiver about an absent third party—is hypothesized to impact reputation formation, partner selection, and cooperation. Laboratory experiments have found that people gossip about others' cooperativeness and that they use gossip to condition their cooperation....