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Jean-Pierre Amigues, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Gilles Lafforgue et Michel Moreaux

n° 20-1138, août 2020

In order to encourage substitution of fossil fuels by cleaner renewables, regulatory agencies have generally chosen between two types of renewable energy standards. They have either mandated a minimum volume of renewable energy as in the case of ethanol in transport fuels, and for electricity in...

Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu et Manh-Hung Nguyen

n° 20-1136, août 2020

This paper studies optimal quarantines (can also be interpreted as lockdowns or selfisolation) when there is an infectious disease with SIS dynamics and infections can cause disease related mortality in a dynamic general equilibrium neoclassical growth framework. We characterize the optimal...

Tuan Anh Luong et Manh-Hung Nguyen

n° 20-1137, août 2020

In this paper, we investigate the impact of containment and closure poli- cies amid the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market. We show that these effects depend on the presence of labor uncertainty. In the absence of labor uncertainty, the containment and closure policy resulted in people applying...

Ingela Alger et Donald Cox

n° 20-1139, août 2020

Maxime Derex et Alex Mesoudi

vol. 24, n° 8, août 2020, p. 654–667

François Salanié et Nicolas Treich

vol. 45, n° 2, juillet 2020, p. 104–113

Governments sometimes encourage or impose individual self-protection measures, such as wearing a protective mask in public during an epidemic. However, by reducing the risk of being infected by others, more self-protection may lead each individual to go outside the house more often. In the absence...

Allison Loconto, Marion Desquilbet, Denis Couvet, Bruno Dorin et Théo Moreau

vol. 96, n° 103610, juillet 2020

Feeding 9 billion people by 2050 on one hand, and preserving the erosion of biodiversity on the other hand, are two shared policy goals at the global level. Yet while these goals are clear, they are to some extent in conflict, because agriculture is a major cause of biodiversity loss, and the path...

Joshua Tybur, Catherine Molho, Begum Cakmak, Terence Daniel Das Dores Cruz, Gaurav Deep Singh et Maria Zwicker

vol. 6, n° 1, juillet 2020

Christian Gouriéroux, Alain Montfort et Jean-Paul Renne

vol. 87, n° 4, juillet 2020, p. 1915–1953

Meng-Wen Tsou, Jin-Tan Liu, James K. Hammitt, Chyi-Horng Lu et Szu-Yu Zoe Kao

vol. 71, n° 3, juillet 2020, p. 379 – 403

We estimate the effect of prenatal exposure to radiation on infant health. By exploiting the 1983 Taiwanese radiation‐contaminated buildings accident as a natural experiment, we compare birth outcomes between siblings and cousins exposed to different radiation levels. Given the 1983 accident was...