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Charles Mullon, Jorge Peña et Laurent Lehmann
n° 23-1476, octobre 2023
Many social interactions happen indirectly via modifications of environmental variables, e.g. through the depletion of renewable resources or the secretion of functional compounds. Here, we derive the selection gradient on a quantitative trait affecting the dynamics of such environmental vari-ables...
Jean-Paul Azam
n° 23-157, octobre 2023, révision novembre 2024
This paper presents an interpretation of the main arguments used in Peter Olivi’s Treatise on Demons, published circa 1295 in Narbonne, Languedoc, within a rational-choice framework. This book has been widely praised as a landmark in the philosophical literature on personhood and personal freedom,...
Stefan Ambec, Claude Crampes et Jean Tirole
n° 23-1484, octobre 2023
La lutte contre le réchauffement climatique passe par l’électrification des usages de l’énergie et l’abandon des sources de production carbonées. Il est donc nécessaire que la production et la fourniture d’énergie électrique soient réalisées en respectant des contraintes d’efficacité de court terme...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Jean-Philippe Platteau et Thierry Verdier
vol. 21(5), octobre 2023, p. 1772–1820
This paper elucidates the willingness of an autocrat to push through institutional reforms in a context where traditional authorities represented by religious clerics are averse to them and where the military control the means of repression and can potentially stage a coup. We show that...
Daniel L. Chen et Martin Schonger
octobre 2023
This article highlights a potential and significant economic–theoretical bias in the widely used strategy method (SM) technique. Although SM is commonly employed to analyze numerous observations per subject regarding rare or off-equilibrium behaviors unattainable through direct elicitation (DE),...
Péter Bayer, György Kozics et Nora Gabriella Szöke
vol. 213, n° 105720, octobre 2023
We study public goods games played on networks with possibly non-reciprocal relationships between players. These include one-sided relationships, mutual but unequal relationships, and parasitism. It is known that many learning processes converge to the game's Nash equilibrium if interactions are...
Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Pierre-Carl Michaud et Marie-Louise Leroux
n° 23-1479, octobre 2023
Cet article étudie certaines des raisons qui pourraient expliquer la faiblesse du marché de l’assurance dépendance au Québec et en Ontario. En utilisant des données d’enquête de 2016, nous expliquons que les biais de perception des risques démographiques (probabilité de survie et de dépendance) ne...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Alice Mesnard et Tiffanie Perrault
n° 23-1475, octobre 2023
We model consumer choices for recreational cannabis in a risky environment and its supply under prohibition and legalization. While legalization reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis consumption. This trade-off can be overcome by combining legalization with sanctions...
Victor Gay et Pauline Grosjean
vol. 90, n° 101550, octobre 2023
This article describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la France database. This database contains individual-level data on the universe of the 1.3 million French fatalities of the Great War who were officially recognized as war victims. It provides information on each soldier’s first...
Pierre Dubois, Rossi Abi Rafeh, Rachel Griffith et Martin O'Connell
n° 23-1480, octobre 2023, révision février 2025
We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of firm competition to analyze the effects of counterfactual policies, such as taxes and advertising restrictions, on pricing, advertising, consumption, and welfare. Using micro-level data, we estimate how consumer exposure to television commercials influences...
