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Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng et Tina Søreide
n° 23-1443, juin 2023, révision 30 août 2023
By combining approaches from the economic theory of crime and of industrial organization, this paper analyzes optimal enforcement for three different forms of corporate misconduct that harm competition. The analysis shows why corporate crime is more harmful in large markets, why governments have a...
Jean Tirole, Paul-Henri Moisson et Pierre Dubois
n° 23-1453, juin 2023
It is puzzling that cooperatives, which stand for the interests of their users, do not occupy more space in the market for corporate forms. This paper unveils a new impediment to their formation. It shows that equilibrium free-riding handicaps cooperatives in their competition with alternative...
Jean Tirole et Michele Bisceglia
n° 1452, juin 2023, révision 30 décembre 2024
Do users receive their fair contribution to digital ecosystems? The frequent accusations of excessive platform fees and self-preferencing leveled at dominant gatekeepers raise the issue of the standard gatekeepers should be held to. The paper provides a framework to explain business strategies and...
Yannis Katsoulacos et Marc Ivaldi
n° 23-1454, juin 2023
Claude Crampes
sous la direction de Christian Gollier et Dominic Rohner, CEPR, chapitre 10, juin 2023, p. 97–105
Guillaume Deffuant, Marijn Keijzer et Sven Banisch
n° 23-154, juin 2023
Worry over polarization has grown alongside the digital information consump-tion revolution. Where most scientific work considered user-generated and user-disseminated (i.e., Web 2.0) content as the culprit, the potential of purely increased access to informa-tion (or Web 1.0) has been largely...
Samuel Snow et Richard O Prum
juin 2023
Models of sexual conflict over mating, including conflict over indirect benefits of mate choice, have generally presumed that female resistance to male coercion must involve direct confrontation, which can lead to sexually antagonistic coevolutionary arms-races. We built a quantitative model...
Daniel L. Chen
vol. 74, n° 106122, juin 2023
Are judges motivated only by policy preferences? Public enforcement of law relies on the use of public agents, such as judges, to follow the law. We use the random assignment of U.S. Federal judges setting geographically-local precedent to document the causal impact of court decisions in a...
Francesco Decarolis, Maris Goldmanis, Antonio Penta et Ksenia Shakhgildyan
vol. 71, n° 2, juin 2023, p. 570–592
Bid delegation to specialized intermediaries is common in internet ad auctions. When the same intermediary bids for competing advertisers, its incentive to coordinate client bids might alter the functioning of the auctions. This study develops a methodology to detect bid coordination and presents a...
Cuong-Viet Nguyen, Manh-Hung Nguyen et Toan Nguyen
vol. 32, n° 6, juin 2023, p. 1220–1243
We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly data on mortality during the 2000-2018 period. We find that both cold and heat waves cause higher mortality, particularly among older people and those living in the hot regions in...
