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David Bardey, Manuel Fernandez et Alexis Gravel
n° 21-1189, février 2021
Using detailed daily information covering 100 countries and an event-study approach, we estimate the short run eects of implementing Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) on the spread of the COVID-19 virus at the early stages of the pandemic. We study the impact of two NPIs {stay-at-home...
Marcel Boyer
n° 21-1190, février 2021
Plusieurs voix s’élèvent pour réclamer une réforme en profondeur du capitalisme dans la foulée de la crise financière de 2008-2010, de l’augmentation des inégalités de revenu et de richesse des quatre dernières décennies et de l’urgence climatique dans un monde planétaire local. Il y a un réel...
Stefan Ambec et Claude Crampes
vol. 94, n° 105074, février 2021
The presence of consumers able to respond to changes in wholesale electricity prices facilitates the penetration of renewable intermittent sources of energy such as wind or sun power. We investigate how adapting demand to intermittent electricity supply by making consumers price-responsive - thanks...
Christophe Alain Bruneel-Zupanc
n° 21-1185, février 2021
This paper develops a general framework for models, static or dynamic, in which agents simultaneously make both discrete and continuous choices. I show that such models are nonparametrically identified. Based on the constructive identification arguments, I build a novel two-step estimation method...
Ayşegül Kanay, Denis Hilton, Laetitia Charalambides, Jean-Baptiste Corrégé, Eva Inaudi, Laurent Waroquier et Stéphane Cezera
n° 21-1191, février 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...
Lukas Dargel
n° 21-1192, février 2021
Taking advantage of a generalization of the matrix formulation introduced by LeSage and Pace (2008), this article presents improvements in the computational performance and flexibility of three estimators of spatial econometric interaction models. By generalizing computational techniques for the...
Ingela Alger, Konrad Dierks et Jean-François Laslier
n° 21-1193, février 2021, révision avril 2025
What drives voters’ decisions to participate in large elections under costly voting, despite the rational expectation that this has no impact on the outcome? We propose a new model of ethical voters, by positing that they have Kantian or semi-Kantian preferences. With such preferences, voters...
Linqun Liu et Nicolas Treich
n° 21-1194, février 2021
This paper studies the role of risk attitudes in determining the optimality of winner-take-all contests. We compare the typical singlewinner lottery contest with two alternatives, both spreading the rewards to more players: through holding multiple prize-giving lottery competitions or through...
Nicolas Treich
n° 21-1197, février 2021
Cultured meat involves producing meat from animal cells, not from slaughtered animals. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with wide implications for the environment, health and animal welfare. The main purpose of this paper is to stimulate some economic research...
Pierre Dubois, Yassine Lefouili et Stéphane Straub
vol. 132, n° 103655, février 2021
We use data from seven low and middle income countries with diverse drug procurement systems to assess the eect of centralized procurement on drug prices, and provide a theoretical mechanism that explains this eect. Our empirical analysis is based on exhaustive data on drug sales quantities and...
