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Jean-Pierre Florens et Anna Simoni

vol. 39, n° 2, 2021, p. 482–492

Catia Batista (Nova School of Business and Economics)

TSE, Toulouse, 2021

Tiziana Assenza

n° 21-1280, décembre 2021, révision mars 2022

Employing a representative US online panel, we document strong imprecision in people’s beliefs about their ability to assess the accuracy of news headlines. With a randomized information experiment, we show that revelation of the true abil- ity causally adjusts beliefs and improves their precision...

Gary Biglaiser, Jacques Crémer et André Veiga

n° 21-1281, décembre 2021

We study incumbency advantage in markets with positive consumption externalities. Users of an incumbent platform receive sto- chastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant and can either accept them or wait for a future opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to delay migration...

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...

Leah Rosenzweig, Bence Bago, Adam Berinsky et David Rand

2021

Do emotions we experience after reading headlines help us discern true from false information or cloud our judgement? Understanding whether emotions are associated with distinguishing truth from fiction and sharing information has implications for interventions designed to curb the spread of...

Claude Crampes et Michel Moreaux

vol. 72, n° 3, 2021, p. 377–420

L’article analyse la gestion optimale des barrages hydroélectriques quand les apports naturels en eau suivent des cycles prévisibles. La règle de Hotelling qui détermine la trajectoire de la valeur de l’eau en stock doit s’appliquer de façon cyclique compte tenu des ruptures saisonnières des...

Olivier De Groote et Koen Declercq

vol. 36, n° 7, 2021, p. 898–916

We analyze the impact of choosing an elite school on high school graduation in an early tracking system in Flanders (Belgium). Whereas elite schools offer only an academic track, most other schools offer multiple tracks. On average, students experience a 3.3 percentage point increase in the...

Thomas S. Kraft, Vivek Venkataraman, Ian J. Wallace, Alyssa Crittenden, N. Holowka, Jonathan Stieglitz, Jacob Harris, David Raichlen, Brian Wood, Michael Gurven et Herman Pontzer

vol. 374, n° 6575, décembre 2021

The suite of derived human traits, including enlarged brains, elevated fertility rates, and long developmental periods and life spans, imposes extraordinarily high energetic costs relative to other great apes. How do human subsistence strategies accommodate our expanded energy budgets? We found...

Paul Seabright, Jonathan Stieglitz et Karine Van Der Straeten

vol. 3, 2021

Political philosophers have long drawn explicitly or implicitly on claims about the ways in which humanbehaviour is shaped by interactions within society. These claims have usually been based on introspection,anecdotes or casual empiricism, but recent empirical research has informed a number of...