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Mauricio González-Forero et Jorge Peña
vol. 288, n° 1949, avril 2021
Eusociality, where largely unreproductive offspring help their mothers reproduce, is a major form of social organization. An increasingly documented feature of eusociality is that mothers induce their offspring to help by means of hormones, pheromones or behavioural displays, with evidence often...
Sreemati Mitter
vol. 50, n° 2, avril 2021, p. 138–143
In addition to selecting a “greatest hit” and a “hidden gem,” here, Sreemati Mitter provides readers with a broad overview of Journal of Palestine Studies (JPS) content on the topic of capitalism in Palestine. Mitter singles out Alexander Schölch’s classic, “The Economic Development of Palestine,...
Claude Crampes et Thomas-Olivier Léautier
n° 21-1205, avril 2021, révision janvier 2022
Pour encourager les opérations de rénovation des bâtiments et le remplacement de vieux équipements énergivores, certains gouvernements ont instauré un système de certificats blancs obligeant les gros producteurs et distributeurs de gaz naturel, électricité et fioul à apporter la preuve qu’ils ont...
Jorge Ale-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, Jing Li et Mathias Reynaert
n° 21-1204, avril 2021, révision octobre 2024
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...
Jean-François Daoust, Eric Bélanger, Ruth Dassonneville, Erick Lachapelle, Richard Nadeau, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard, Martial Foucault, Christoph Hönninge et Daniel Stegmueller
vol. 16, n° 4, avril 2021
Studies of citizens’ compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures routinely rely on survey data. While such data are essential, public health restrictions provide clear signals of what is socially desirable in this context, creating a potential source of response bias in self-reported measures of...
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...
David Martimort
vol. 177, n° 2, avril 2021, p. 95–108
Milo Bianchi, Rose-Anne Dana et Elyès Jouini
n° 21-1253, avril 2021
Consider a rm owned by shareholders with heterogeneous beliefs and run by a manager who chooses random production plans. Shareholders do not observe the chosen plan but only its realization. The nancial market consists of assets contingent on production realizations. A contract for the manager...
Emmanuelle Auriol
sous la direction de David V. Mc Queen, avril 2021, Oxford University Press
Regulating quality is challenging because in public utilities such as water and sanitation, quality is multidimensional, is not always objectively measurable, and can be hard to verify, both ex ante and ex post. It is therefore useful to review the main insights from the New Economics of Regulation...
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...
