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Jana Gieselmann (University of Düsseldorf)
Online Event, 18–19 mai 2021
Felix Mindl (University of Cologne)
Enrick Arnaud-Joufray (Telecom-ParisTech)
Vatsala Shreeti (Toulouse School of Economics)
Luis Cabral (New York University)
Romain Espinosa et Nicolas Treich
vol. 56, avril 2021, p. 531–548
While antispeciesism is an ethical notion, veganism is behavioral. In this paper, we examine the links between the two. Building on Blackorby and Donaldson (1992), we consider a two-species model in which humans consume animals. The level of antispeciesism is conceived as the weight on animals'...
Helmuth Cremer, Justina Klimaviciute et Pierre Pestieau
n° 21-1174, avril 2021
This paper studies the political sustainability of programs that are targeted towards the poor. Given that the poor to whom these programs cater do not constitute a majority, we show that for their own good it pays to let the middle class benefit from them in a random way. This approach mimics the...
Catherine Bobtcheff, Raphaël Lévy et Thomas Mariotti
n° 21-1202, avril 2021, révision février 2025
Firms receiving independent signals on a common-value risky project compete to be the first to invest. When firms are symmetric and competition is winner-take-all, rents are fully dissipated in equilibrium and the extent to which signals are publicly disclosed is irrelevant for welfare. When...
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer et Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
n° 21-1217, avril 2021, révision février 2023
We study the design of pension benets for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transforma- tion of individualslifetime utilities...
Eyal Castiel, Sem Borst, Laurent Miclo, Florian Simatos et Phil Whiting
vol. 31, n° 2, avril 2021, p. 941–971
We examine a queue-based random-access algorithm where ac-tivation and deactivation rates are adapted as functions of queue lengths.We establish its heavy traffic behavior on a complete interference graph,which turns out to be nonstandard in two respects: (1) the scaling dependson some parameter of...
