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Bence Bago, David Rand et Gordon Pennycook
n° 21-126, décembre 2021
Why is disbelief in anthropogenic climate change common despite broad scientific consensus to the contrary? A widely-held explanation involves politically motivated (“System 2”) reasoning: Rather than helping uncover truth, people use their reasoning abilities to protect their partisan identities...
Mamadou Thiam, Jean-Claude Kouakou Brou et Benur Andrade Varela
vol. 36, n° 4, décembre 2021, p. 519–548
As a result of COVID-19, the export of medical goods has been subject to various global restrictions. Consequently, several countries have increased the supply of medical goods to alleviate the effects of this health crisis. This study entails a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of...
Daniel F. Garrett, Renato Gomes et Lucas Maestri
n° 21-1282, décembre 2021
We study competition by firms that simultaneously post (potentially nonlinear) tariffs to consumers who are privately informed about their tastes. Market power stems from informational frictions, in that consumers are heterogeneously informed about firms’ offers. In the absence of regulation, all...
Alexandre de Cornière et Greg Taylor
n° 21-1285, décembre 2021
Cyberattacks are a pervasive threat in the digital economy, with the potential to harm rms and their customers. Larger rms constitute more valuable targets to hack- ers, thereby creating negative network eects. These can be mitigated by investments in security, which play both a deterrent and a...
Claude Crampes et Jérôme Renault
n° 22-1350, décembre 2021, révision août 2025
Power producers using plants with controllable output rely on partially flexible technologies to adapt to the variability of production from intermittent renewable energy sources and of end demand. We analyze the adjustment of production up or down as part of a two-stage decision process, in which...
Bence Bago, Leah Rosenzweig, Adam Berinsky et David Rand
n° 21-127, décembre 2021
Misinformation is a serious concern for societies across the globe. To design effective interventions to combat the belief in and spread of misinformation, we must understand which psychological processes influence susceptibility to misinformation. This paper tests the widely assumed -- but largely...
Jonathon McPhetres, Bence Bago et Gordon Pennycook
décembre 2021
Generally, it is assumed that a primary source of contention surrounding science is political and, therefore, that partisan disagreement drives attitudes about various science topics. Other models focus on the roles of basic science knowledge and cognitive sophistication, arguing that these...
Fériel Boulfani, Xavier Gendre, Anne Ruiz-Gazen et Martina Salvignol
n° 21-1274, décembre 2021
The sizing of aircraft electrical generators mainly depends on the electrical loads installed in the aircraft. Currently, the generator capacity is estimated by summing the critical loads, but this method tends to overestimate the genera-tor capacity. A new method to challenge this approach is to...
vol. 79, n° 102735, décembre 2021, 32 pages
We study competition by firms that simultaneously post (potentially nonlinear) taris to consumers who are privately informed about their tastes. Market power stems from informational frictions, in that consumers are heterogeneously informed about firms' oers. In the absence of regulation, all firms...
Jean-Pierre Florens et Anna Simoni
vol. 39, n° 2, 2021, p. 482–492
