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Ingela Alger
n° 20-1093, juillet 2020, révision mai 2021
Since a man’s reproductive success depends on his ability to outcompete other men, male competitiveness may be expected to have been exposed to strong selective pressure throughout human history. Accordingly, the relatively low level of physical violence observed between men has been viewed as a...
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer et Firouz Gahvari
n° 20-1121, juillet 2020
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed...
Marc Ivaldi, Liberty Mncube et Marina Sánchez del Villar
n° 20-1122, juillet 2020
In this paper, we use a differentiated-products set up to assess the impact on competition of a merger between Greif and Rheem South Africa. Both parties are active in the industrial packaging products sector. The parties’ activities overlap, among others, in the production of large steel drums....
Daniel L. Chen, Moti Michaeli et Daniel Spiro
n° 20-1123, juillet 2020
In many settings of political bargaining over policy, agents care not only about getting their will but also about having others approve the chosen policy thus giving it more weight. What is the effect on the bargaining outcome when agents care about such legitimacy of the policy? We study this...
Stefan Ambec et Philippe De Donder
n° 20-1124, juillet 2020, révision juillet 2021
Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
Jean-Paul Azam
n° 20-1126, juillet 2020, révision septembre 2020
This paper shows that the two oil shocks that occurred in 1974-85 and 2003-15 inflicted sizable damage to total factor productivity (TFP) in France and Germany. These are resource-poor economies whose firms are importing most of their inputs of extractive commodities. The real prices they pay for...
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...
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...
Alban Thomas et Louis-Georges Soler
vol. 101, juillet 2020, p. 91–116
In the scientific literature, the debate on health and environmental benefits of a reduction in the share of animal-sourced food, in particular beef, in consumer diets is mostly focused on demand-side vs. supply transitions. We discuss in this paper the necessary conditions for a win-win scenario...
Bård Harstad
vol. 128, n° 7, juillet 2020, p. 2653–2689
A growing body of evidence suggests that individuals have time-inconsistent preferences. Even when they do not, policy makers who fear to loose elections will apply discount rates that decrease in relative time when they consider investment projects. To ináuence future choices, current strategic...
