Jump to navigation
Nicolas Martinez (Toulouse School of Economics)
15–16 juin 2022
Isis Durrmeyer
vol. 132, n° 644, mai 2022, p. 1414–1448
I quantify the welfare and environmental gains and losses from a policy establishing an environmental tax/subsidy for new cars in France in 2008. I estimate a structural model of demand and supply that features heterogeneity in consumer preferences to go beyond the average policy effects and...
Philippe De Donder, Marie-Louise Leroux et François Salanié
n° 22-1334, mai 2022, révision 25 avril 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...
Huan Tang (London School of Economics)
TSE, mai 2022
Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics)
Amelia Fletcher
Ingela Alger, Slimane Dridi, Jonathan Stieglitz et Michael Wilson
n° 22-1337, mai 2022
How did humans evolve from individualistic foraging to collective foraging with sex differences in food production and widespread sharing of plant and animal foods? While current models of food sharing focus on meat or cooking, considerations of the economics of foraging for extracted plant foods (e...
Antonio Musolesi, Giada Andrea Prete et Michel Simioni
n° 22-1335, mai 2022
Daniel L. Chen et Martin Schonger
vol. 8, n° 19, mai 2022
Recent advances in economic theory, largely motivated by experimental findings, have led to the adoption of models of human behavior where decision-makers take into consideration not only their own payoff but also others’ payoffs and any potential consequences of these payoffs. Investigations of...
George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja et Tewodros Tebekew
n° 22-1336, mai 2022, révision juin 2024
We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority to understand how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in their daily work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: a standard game, a game with a threshold...
