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Ilaria Natali, Mathias Dewatripont, Victor Ginsburgh, Michel Goldman et Patrick Legros
n° 22-1388, décembre 2022
This paper studies how opioid analgesic sales are empirically related to socioeconomic disparities in France, with a focus on poverty. This analysis is made possible using the OpenHealth database, which provides retail sales data for opioid analgesics available on the French market. We exploit firm...
Claude Crampes et Michel Moreaux
n° 177, 2022, p. 9–27
By increasing the size of production, storage, and transport equipment, firms seek to take advantage of an increase in volume (outputs) proportionally larger than the increase in surface (inputs). But economies of scale are limited by the strength of the materials, the distance to supply and...
Antonin Arlandis (La Poste Groupe)
TSE, 2022
Abdelaati Daouia, Irene Gijbels et Gilles Stupfler
vol. 117, n° 539, 2022, p. 1579–1586
Regression extremiles define a least squares analogue of regression quantiles. They are determined by weighted expectations rather than tail probabilities. Of special interest is their intuitive meaning in terms of expected minima and maxima. Their use appears naturally in risk management where, in...
Xintong Han (Concordia University and CIREQ)
James K. Hammitt, Jin-Tan Liu et Jin-Long Liu
vol. 65, décembre 2022, p. 239–260
The value of a change in mortality risk is conventionally described by the marginal rate of substitution between income and mortality risk–the value per statistical life (VSL). The income elasticity of VSL is important for estimating how the value of mortality risk varies with time (for evaluating...
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...
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...
Helmuth Cremer et Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
vol. 84, n° 102642, 2022
This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...
Frank Wolak (Stanford University)
