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Georg Nöldeke, and Jorge Peña
vol. 88, May 2020, pp. 42–51
We consider how group size affects the private provision of a public good with non-refundable binary contributions. A fixed amount of the good is provided if and only if the number of contributors reaches an exogenous threshold. The threshold, the group size, and the identical, non-refundable cost...
Marcel Boyer
n. 2: “Competition Law review”, May 2020, pp. 33–38
Alexander Guembel, and Oren Sussman
vol. 87, n. 3, May 2020, pp. 1296–1330
We study a two-country setting in which leveraged investors generate fire-sale externalities, leading to financial crises and contagion. Governments can affect the incidence of financial crisis and the degree of contagion by injecting public liquidity and, additionally, by segmenting the countries...
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, and Kerstin Roeder
vol. 176, May 2020, pp. 188–211
This paper studies the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care in the market. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about...
Ingela Alger, Paul L. Hooper, Donald Cox, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Hillard Kaplan
vol. 117, n. 20, May 2020, pp. 10746–10754
Paternal provisioning among humans is puzzling because it is rare among primates and absent in nonhuman apes and because emergent provisioning would have been subject to paternity theft. A provisioning “dad” loses fitness at the hands of nonprovisioning, mate-seeking “cads.” Recent models require...
Marcel Boyer, Anne Catherine Faye, E. Gravel, and Rachidi Kotchoni
n. 3, May 2020, 6 pages
Nous discutons les enjeux et embûches théoriques et empiriques auxquels les autorités de concurrence et les tribunaux font face pour sanctionner les cartels, à savoir la probabilité de détection, la dynamique de cartel, la durée de l’impact et le surprix.
Hannah Hobson, Heather Westwood, Jane Conway, Fiona McEwen, Emma Colvert, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird, and Francesca Happe
vol. 73, n. 101531, May 2020
Alexithymia, a difficulty identifying and communicating one’s own emotions, affects socio-emotional processes, such as emotion recognition and empathy. Co-occurring alexithymia is prevalent in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and underlies some socio-emotional difficulties usually attributed to...
Estelle Midler, Marianne Lefebvre, and Philippe Bontems
vol. 76, May 2020, pp. 405–428
Agriculture is one of the economic sectors most exposed to exogenous risks such as climate hazards and price volatility on agricultural markets. Agricultural policies targeting the adoption of environment-friendly but potentially risk-increasing practices cannot ignore this challenge. Farmers have...
Milo Bianchi, and Philippe Jehiel
vol. 15, n. 2, May 2020, pp. 545–582
Thibault Laurent, Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley, and Olivier de Mouzon
n. 54, April 2020, pp. 363–395
