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Jose Aurazo et Farid Gasmi
n° 24-1572, janvier 2024
Digitization of retail payments has facilitated the promotion of financial inclusion recognized to stimulate growth, alleviate poverty, and address gender disparities in the financial sector. This paper closely examines four prominent payment solutions in the developing world, which are M-Pesa in...
Romain Espinosa et Nicolas Treich
n° 24-1503, janvier 2024
We provide a non-anthropocentric rationale for implementing a levy on meat consumption due to animal-welfare considerations. It operates as a Pigouvian tax and addresses externalities on farmed animals. Under total utilitarianism, the levy is a subsidy when an animal’s life is worth living, and a...
Dante Donati
Toulouse, 2023, révision 10 juin 2026
Christine Thomas-Agnan et Lukas Dargel
vol. 184, n° 4, 2023, p. 143– 151
Jingling Zhang, Jane Conway et César Hidalgo
« Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications », 2023
People are known to judge artificial intelligence using a utilitarian moral philosophy and humans using a moral philosophy emphasizing perceived intentions. But why do people judge humans and machines differently? Psychology suggests that people may have different mind perception models for humans...
Koen Jochmans
vol. 14, 2023, révision 10 juin 2026, p. 417–433
We consider point estimation and inference based on modifications of the profile likelihood in models for dyadic interactions between n agents featuring agent-specific parameters. The maximum-likelihood estimator of such models has bias and standard deviation of order n-1 and so is asymptotically...
Marijn Keijzer et Rense Corten
vol. 35, n° 1, 2023, p. 34–60
Online peer-to-peer markets decentralize the distribution of resources, creating a trust problem in economic exchange on the internet. Individual characteristics of trustees—as determinants for being trusted—are therefore increasingly important. In light of this societal development, this study...
Brian Love, Yassine Lefouili et Christian Helmers
vol. 25, n° 1, 2023, p. 300–337
To what extent and with what effect do owners of standard-essential patents (SEPs) “hold-up” companies that produce standard-compliant products? To explore this question, we construct measures of opportunistic patent licensing behaviors using detailed information collected from the dockets of U.S....
Laura Resnick Samotin, Jeffrey A. Friedman et Michael C. Horowitz
2023
We interviewed national security professionals to understand why the U.S. Intelligence Community has not systematically incorporated prediction markets or prediction polls into its intelligence reporting. This behavior is surprising since crowdsourcing platforms often generate more accurate...
Rachael Colley, Umberto Grandi, César Hidalgo, Mariana Macedo et Carlos Navarrete
sous la direction de Edith Elkind, 2023
In rank aggregation, members of a population rank issues to decide which are collectively preferred. We focus instead on identifying divisive issues that express disagreements among the preferences of individuals. We analyse the properties of our divisiveness measures and their relation to existing...
