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Léo Fitouchi et Manvir Singh
vol. 24, avril 2022, p. 252–257
Why do humans develop beliefs in supernatural entities that punish uncooperative behaviors? Leading hypotheses maintain that these beliefs are widespread because they facilitate cooperation, allowing their groups to outcompete others in intergroup competition. Focusing on within-group interactions...
Olivier De Groote, Axel Gautier et Frank Verboven
n° 22-1329, avril 2022, révision février 2024
We analyze the political impact of a generous solar panel subsidization program. Subsidies far exceeded their social benefit and were partly financed by new taxes to adopters and by electricity surcharges to all consumers. We use local panel data from Belgium and find a decrease in votes for...
Koen Jochmans et Ayden Higgins
n° 22-1328, avril 2022, révision décembre 2023
The maximum-likelihood estimator of nonlinear panel data models with fixed effects is asymptotically biased under rectangular-array asymptotics. The literature has devoted substantial effort to devising methods that correct for this bias as a means to salvage standard inferential procedures. The...
Marijn Keijzer
mars 2022
Anders Bondemark, Henrik Andersson et Karin Brundell-Freij
vol. 157, mars 2022, p. 160–184
In this paper, we present a study of Swedish inhabitants' preferences for distribution in three dimensions in the context of transport investments. Using choice experiments, we study the respondents' preferences for the distribution of benefits in the geographical, gender, and income dimension in...
Claude Crampes et Nils-Henrik Von Der Fehr
n° 22-1315, mars 2022
Reaping the full benefits from cross-border interconnection typically requires reinforcement of national networks. When the relevant parts of the networks are complements, a lack of coordination between national transmission system operators typically results in investment below optimal levels in...
Jean-Paul Azam et Jérôme Ferret
n° 22-1296, mars 2022, révision novembre 2023
A simple game-theoretic model is used to end the sterile intellectual trench war between those who analyze each instance of a community’s radicalization process as a self-contained phenomenon and those who prefer to embed such episodes within a more encompassing social framework. In the model, two...
Jérôme Bolte, Tam Le, Edouard Pauwels et Antonio Silveti-Falls
In view of training increasingly complex learning architectures, we establish a nonsmooth implicit function theorem with an operational calculus. Our result applies to most practical problems (i.e., definable problems) provided that a nonsmooth form of the classical invertibility condition is...
Michele Polo et Patrick Rey
n° 22-1316, mars 2022, révision octobre 2024
This paper analyses the impact on antitrust enforcement of commitments, a tool introduced in Europe by the Modernization reform of 2003, and intensively used since then by the European Commission and by National Competition Agencies. We consider a setting where a firm can adopt a costly practice...
María Elvira Guerra-Cújar, Mounu Prem, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes et Juan F. Vargas
n° 22-135, mars 2022
Violence affects households’ preferences, perceptions and constraints regarding fertility choices. What happens when violence ends? Using administrative data from Colombia, we find that the end of a long internal conflict differentially increased fertility by 2.6 percent in areas exposed to...
