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Doh-Shin Jeon

TSE, 12–13 mai 2022

Elisabetta Iossa, Patrick Rey et Michael Waterson

vol. 20, n° 2, avril 2022, p. 822–868

The paper studies competition for the market in a setting where incumbents (and, to a lesser extent, neighboring incumbents) benefit from a cost advantage. The paper first compares the outcome of staggered and synchronous tenders, before drawing the implications for market design. We find that the...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Guido Friebel et Alisa Weinberger

vol. 119, n° 16, avril 2022

Based on a dataset that we collected from the top research institutions in economics around the globe (including universities, business schools, and other organizations, such as central banks), we document the underrepresentation of women in economics. For the 238 universities and business schools...

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...

Benjamin Ouvrard, Stefan Ambec, Arnaud Reynaud, Stéphane Cezera et Murudaiah Shivamurthy

vol. 59, avril 2022, p. 605–635

Natural resources such as water, for which the availability to users is random, are often shared according to predefined rules. What determines users’ choice of a sharing rule? To answer this question, we designed an experiment in which subjects: (1) vote on sharing rules; (2) choose the technology...

Christian Bontemps, Kevin Remmy et Jiangyu Wei

vol. 56, n° 2, avril 2022, p. 129–155

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of the domestic US airline market to analyse the effect of the recent merger between American Airlines and US Airways. Our results show that, between 2011 and 2016, a substantial fuel price drop, in conjunction with changes in consumer preferences...

Michele Bisceglia, Roberto Cellini et Luca Grilli

vol. 315, avril 2022, p. 73–92

This paper proposes a generalization of Shleifer’s (RAND J Econ 16:319–327, 1985) model of yardstick competition to a dynamic framework. In a differential game setting, we show that the yardstick mechanism effectively replicates the first-best solution if players adopt open-loop behaviour rules and...

Pierre Dubois, Ashvin Gandhi et Shoshana Vasserman

n° 22-1338, avril 2022

The United States spends twice as much per person on pharmaceuticals as European countries, in large part because prices are much higher in the US. This fact has led policymakers to consider legislation for price controls. This paper assesses the effects of a US international reference pricing...

Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen et Sergio Galletta

vol. 89, n° 354, avril 2022, p. 362–376

This paper provides a general method for analysing the sentiments expressed in the language of judicial rulings. We apply natural language processing tools to the text of US appellate court opinions to extrapolate judges’ sentiments (positive/good vs. negative/bad) towards a number of target social...

Shyamalika Gopalan, Richard Berl, Justin Myrick, Zachary Garfield, Austin Reynolds, Barnabas Bafens, Gillian Belbin, Mira Mastoras, Cole Williams, Michelle Daya, Akmel Negash, Marcus Feldman, Barry Hewlett et Brenna Henn

vol. 32, n° 8, avril 2022, p. 1852–1860

The fate of hunting and gathering populations following the rise of agriculture and pastoralism remains a topic of debate in the study of human prehistory. Studies of ancient and modern genomes have found that autochthonous groups were largely replaced by expanding farmer populations with varying...