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Jorge Ale-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, Jing Li et Mathias Reynaert
avril 2025
We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider a case of three German automakers colluding to reduce the effectiveness of...
Giacomo Lemoli
vol. 58, n° 5, avril 2025, p. 890–923
This paper studies the relationship between ethnic media, which produce content in a minority language, and the success of ethnic parties. I argue that, by embedding cultural traits in entertainment products, media outlets can shape the salience of group identity, which helps parties’ mobilization...
Alexandre de Cornière, Andrea Mantovani et Shiva Shekhar
vol. 71, n° 4, avril 2025, p. 3340–3356
We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogeneous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...
George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja et Tewodros Tebekew
vol. 73, n° 3, avril 2025
We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority to understand how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in their daily work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: a standard game, a game with a threshold...
Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 13, n° 2, avril 2025, p. 337–353
Rey Dang, L'hocine Houanti, Michel Simioni et Jean-Michel Sahut
vol. 347, avril 2025, p. 333–365
Due to a contrasting empirical literature, we revisit the influence of board gender diversity (BGD) on corporate social performance (CSP) by carefully considering the thorny issue of endogeneity, which plagues this matter. Building on stakeholder theory (Freeman, Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic...
Olivier De Groote
vol. 43, n° 2, avril 2025
I investigate high school tracking policies using a dynamic discrete choice model of study programs and unobserved effort. I estimate the model using data from Flanders (Belgium) and perform an ex ante evaluation of a policy that encourages underperforming students to switch to less academically...
Laura Doval et Alex Smolin
vol. 22, n° 2, mars 2025, p. 56–65
In this letter, we summarize our recent work on the welfare impact of recommendation algorithms and propose questions for further study. We model recommendation algorithms as an information structure, which shapes how a third party takes actions that affect the welfare of different individuals in a...
Christian Bontemps, Jean-Pierre Florens et Nour Meddahi
vol. 248, mars 2025
In this paper, we consider the problem of ecological inference when one observes the conditional distributions of Y|W and Z|W from aggregate data and attempts to infer the conditional distribution of Y|Z without observing Y and Z in the same sample. First, we show that this problem can be...
Luc Attia, Lyuben Lichev, Dieter Mitsche, Raimundo Saona et Bruno Ziliotto
mars 2025