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Shiva Shekhar (University of Passau)
TSE, 2022
Joan Calzada, Ester Manna et Andrea Mantovani
vol. 31, n° 3, 2022, p. 609–637
Price parity clauses (PPCs) are widely adopted by online platforms to force client sellers not to lower their prices elsewhere. We investigate under what conditions online travel agencies (OTAs) decide to apply PPCs, and how this affects hotels' listing decisions on OTAs. We find OTAs adopt PPCs...
Bruno Carballa-Smichowski (Joint Research Centre and University Paris 13)
Jay J. Van Bavel, Aleksandra Cichocka, Paulo S. Boggio et Sylvie Borau
vol. 13, n° 517, 2022
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public...
Laurent Miclo, Pierre Patie et Rohan Sarkar
vol. 50, n° 6, 2022, p. 2085–2132
The first aim of this paper is to introduce a class of Markov chains on Z+ which are discrete self-similar in the sense that their semigroups satisfy an invariance property expressed in terms of a discrete random dilation operator. After showing that this latter property requires the chains to be...
Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer et Daniel L. Chen
n° 22-1390, décembre 2022
Randomizing different schools of thought –via a month-long training– finds that training deputy ministers in effective altruism renders 0.4-0.6 standard deviations increase in altruism. Treated ministers increased mentalizing of others: blood donations doubled, but only when blood banks requested...
Perrin Lefebvre et David Martimort
vol. 34, n° 3, 2022, p. 357–414
A substantial literature has been devoted to analyzing how legislators delegate regulatory power to a more knowledgeable agency. Yet, much less attention has been paid to understand how this delegation process is shaped by the environment in which this agency operates, and more specifically by the...
Cécile Aubert et Huihui Ding
vol. 59, 2022, p. 207–249
A reelection-seeking politician makes a policy decision that can reveal her private information on whether her political orientation and capabilities will be a good fit to future circumstances. We study how she may choose inappropriate policies to hide her information, even in the absence of...
Robert Edwards (University of Nottingham Business School)
Ilaria Pretelli, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder et Richard McElreath
vol. 4, n° e34, 2022
Humans live in diverse, complex niches where survival and reproduction are conditional on the acquisition of knowledge. Humans also have long childhoods, spending more than a decade before they become net producers. Whether the time needed to learn has been a selective force in the evolution of...
