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Felipe Gonzalez, Stéphane Straub, Josepa Miquel-Florensa et Mounu Prem
n° 23-1440, mai 2023
Transportation infrastructure is associated with economic development, but it can also be used for social control and to benefit the governing elite. We explore the connection between the construction of road networks, state-led repression, and land allocations in the longest dictatorship in South...
Henrik Andersson et Benjamin Ouvrard
n° 23-1439, mai 2023
Using a discrete choice experiment this study examines whether different types of priming may influence the respondents’ answers when choosing between different policies aimed at reducing the mortality risk due to ambient air pollution. We focus on two types of priming: (i) two versions of an oath...
Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur et Estelle Malavolti
n° 23-1433, mai 2023
Because of population aging, dependency represents a major societal challenge. While some of the issues including insurance design and the provision of Long-Term-Care have recently been studied and debated, the potential role of prevention has been mostly neglected. To fill this gap the World...
James K. Hammitt et Tuba Tuncel
mai 2023, révision 10 juin 2026
Individuals’ monetary values of decreases in mortality risk depend on the magnitude and timing of the risk reduction. We elicited stated preferences among three time paths of risk reduction yielding the same increase in life expectancy (decreasing risk for the next decade, subtracting a constant...
Kinga Makovi, Anahit Sargsyan, Wendi Li, Jean-François Bonnefon et Tahal Rahwan
n° 3108, mai 2023
With the progress of artificial intelligence and the emergence of global online communities, humans and machines are increasingly participating in mixed collectives in which they can help or hinder each other. Human societies have had thousands of years to consolidate the social norms that promote...
Milo Bianchi et Marie Brière
sous la direction de Agostino Capponi et Charles-Albert Lehalle, Cambridge University Press, mai 2023
Jochen Krattenmacher, Paula Casal, Jan Dutkiewicz, Elise Huchard, Edel Sanders et Nicolas Treich
vol. 7, mai 2023, p. 354–355
Philippe De Donder, Marie-Louise Leroux et François Salanié
mai 2023
Advantageous selection occurs when the agents most eager to buy insurance are also the cheapest ones to insure. Hemenway (1990) links it to differences in risk-aversion among agents, implying different prevention efforts, and finally different riskinesses. We argue that it may also appear when...
Sean Ennis, Marc Ivaldi et Vicente Lagos
vol. 66, n° 2, mai 2023
This paper examines the impact of most favored nation (MFN) clauses on retail prices, taking advantage of two natural experiments that changed vertical contracting between hotels and major digital platforms. The broad E.U. intervention narrowed the breadth of “price parity” obligations between...
Ingela Alger
vol. 378, n° 1876, mai 2023
The 50-year old concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy provided a key toolfor theorists to model ultimate drivers of behaviour in social interactions. Fordecades, economists ignored ultimate drivers and used models in which individ-uals choose strategies based on their preferences—a proximate...
