Recherche avancée

Christian Gollier

vol. 192, n° 105189, mars 2021

Ayşegül Kanay, Denis Hilton, Laetitia Charalambides, Jean-Baptiste Corrégé, Eva Inaudi, Laurent Waroquier et Stéphane Cezera

vol. 83, n° 102348, mars 2021

We compared the effectiveness of basket goal-setting to product information strategies on sustainable consumption in a simulated online supermarket. Experiment 1 found a significant effect of basket goal setting techniques with carbon basket feedback in either numerical or graphical form on the...

E. Quintiero, Serena Gastaldi, Francesca De Petrillo, Elsa Addessi et Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde

vol. 376, n° 1819, mars 2021

Money represents a cornerstone of human modern economies and how money emerged as a medium of exchange is a crucial question for social sciences. Although non-human primates have not developed monetary systems, they can estimate, combine and exchange tokens. Here, we evaluated quantity–quality...

David Bardey, Arturo Harker et Daniela Zuluaga

n° 21-1195, mars 2021

We evaluate the impact of a price cap regulation implemented in the Colombian pharmaceutical market between 2011 and 2014. To do so, we take advantage of a unique data set where we observe three sources of variation: i) differences across eighteen groups in the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC...

Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitabile et Matteo Bobba

n° 21-1196, mars 2021, révision octobre 2023

This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an edu-cational mentoring program in Mexico. The analysis encompasses two independent field experiments, and seizes a unique opportunity to learn from the government’s implementation of the same intervention. While the...

Nicolas Treich et Yuting Yang

vol. 106, n° 102421, mars 2021

Standard benefit-cost analysis often ignores distortions caused by taxation and the heterogeneity of taxpayers. In this paper, we theoretically and numerically explore the effect of imperfect taxation on the public provision of mortality risk reductions (or public safety). We show that this effect...

Sofia B. Villas-Boas, Céline Bonnet et James Hilger

vol. 103, n° 2, mars 2021, p. 663–681

By conducting a field experiment, we investigate whether consumers value expert opinion labels on wine as a form of reducing asymmetric information about product quality. We use two types of data. First, we use a macro-level monthly-product-store dataset, collected before and after our field...

Michael Becher et Daniel Stegmueller

vol. 19, n° 1, mars 2021, p. 92–109

It has long been recognized that economic inequality may undermine the principle of equal responsiveness that lies at the core of democratic governance. A recent wave of scholarship has highlighted an acute degree of political inequality in contemporary democracies in North America and Europe. In...

Abdelaati Daouia, Stéphane Girard et Gilles Stupfler

vol. 221, n° 1, mars 2021, p. 97–117

Risk measures of a financial position are, from an empirical point of view, mainly based on quantiles. Replacing quantiles with their least squares analogues, called expectiles, has recently received increasing attention. The novel expectile-based risk measures satisfy all coherence requirements....

Simon Columbus, Catherine Molho, Francesca Righetti et Daniel Balliet

vol. 120, n° 3, mars 2021, p. 626–650

Philosophers and scientists have long debated the nature of human social interactions and the prevalence of mutual dependence, conflict of interests, and power asymmetry in social situations. Yet, there is surprisingly little empirical work documenting the patterns of interdependence that people...