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Nils Köbis, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan
vol. 5, n. 6, June 2021, pp. 679–685
Machines powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are now influencing the behavior of humans in ways that are both like and unlike the ways humans influence each other. In light of recent research showing that other humans can exert a strong corrupting influence on people’s ethical behavior, worry...
Abdelaati Daouia, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen (eds.)
June 2021
Jean Tirole
vol. 13, June 2021, pp. 1–17
Emmanuel Farhi passed away on July 23, 2020. After depicting his scientific style and values, this tribute discusses how he transformed the theory of taxation, macroeconomics, and international finance, and describes his approach and insights through a sample of his remarkable contributions to...
Ulrich Hege, Elaine Hutson, and Elaine Laing
n. 101935, June 2021
Using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the impact of corporate governance reform on foreign exchange risk hedging, we find that the substantial improvements in governance standards increased derivatives hedging and reduced foreign exchange exposure. The...
vol. 111, n. 6, June 2021, pp. 2007–2048
Autocratic regimes, democratic majorities, private platforms and religious or professional organizations can achieve social control by managing the flow of information about individuals' behavior. Bundling the agents' political, organizational or religious attitudes with information about their...
Jean-Paul Azam
vol. 4, n. 1, June 2021
Margot Dazey
vol. 72, n. 3, June 2021, pp. 580–593
Respectability politics—that is, the process by which privileged members of marginalized groups comply with dominant social norms to advance their group's condition—is the object of a growing body of literature in the fields of race and ethnic studies, social movements, and critical theory. Yet...
Manvir Singh
vol. 13, n. 3, June 2021
Guido Friebel, Marie Lalanne, Bernard Richter, Paul Seabright, and Peter Schwardmann
vol. 186, June 2021, pp. 33–45
We study how the random assignment of new students to introductory-week groups shapes subsequent friendship networks. Both women and men report being much more likely to be friends with same-gender students with whom they were (randomly) assigned in a group during their first week on campus, and...
Manh-Hung Nguyen, Thi Lan Anh Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Arnaud Reynaud, Michel Simioni, and Viet-Ngu Hoang
vol. 70, June 2021, pp. 529–543
The paper presents one of the first economic analyses of residents’ choice of different coastal erosion control measures in a developing country — Vietnam. Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was selected given the frequency of coastal erosion events which have caused increasing damages to...
