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Olivier Jean Blanchard, Christian Gollier et Jean Tirole
n° 22-1360, septembre 2022
Emmanuelle Auriol, Sara Biancini et Rodrigo Paillacar
n° 22-1354, septembre 2022
The paper proposes an empirical analysis of the determinants of the adoption of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and their impact on innovation in manufacturing. The analysis is conducted with panel data covering 112 countries. First we show that IPR protection is U-shaped with respect to a...
Manvir Singh et Luke Glowacki
vol. 43, septembre 2022, p. 418–431
Many researchers assume that until 10–12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile, relatively egalitarian bands. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” suffuses the social sciences. It informs evolutionary explanations of behavior and our understanding of how contemporary societies differ from those...
Malachy James Gavan et Antonio Penta
n° 22-1369, septembre 2022
We introduce Safe Implementation, a notion of implementation that adds to the standard requirements the restriction that deviations from the baseline solution concept induce outcomes that are acceptable. The primitives of Safe Implementation therefore include both a Social Choice Correspondence, as...
Charlotte Cavaillé et Karine Van Der Straeten
n° 22-145, septembre 2022
Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers’ understanding of the political...
Anna Sanktjohanser
n° 22-1367, septembre 2022
Models on reputational bargaining have introduced a perturbation with simple be-havioral types as a way of refining payo˙ predictions for the rational type. I show that this outcome refinement is not robust to the specification of the behavioral type. More specifically, I consider a slight...
Anaïs Fabre
n° 22-1362, septembre 2022, révision juillet 2025
This paper studies the Two-Way Fixed Effects (TWFE) estimator in a general setting where multiple groups can enter and exit a binary treatment over time. It establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for this estimator to correspond to a convex combination of Average Treatment Effects (ATEs)....
Peiyao Ma, Andrea Mantovani, Carlo Reggiani, Annette Broocks et Nestor Duch-Brown
n° 22-1371, septembre 2022
Dominant platforms such as Booking.com and Amazon often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the full removal of these price restrictions in France in 2015 for three major international...
Tuba Tuncel
n° 22-1383, septembre 2022
After a drug obtains marketing authorization, the usage depends on the regulation of off-label pre-scriptions for unapproved indications. We investigate the impact of off-label prescription regulation on physicians’ behavior, patients’ health, treatment costs, and pharmaceutical firms’ pricing with...
Bertrand Achou, Philippe De Donder, Franca Glenzer, Minjoon Lee et Marie-Louise Leroux
vol. 201, septembre 2022, p. 1–21
COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes during the recent pandemic have received ample media coverage and may have lasting negative impacts on individuals’ perception of nursing homes. We argue that this could have sizable and persistent implications for savings and long-term care policies. Our...
