Recherche avancée

Nicolas Treich et Yuting Yang

n° 21-1188, février 2021

Standard benefit-cost analysis often ignores distortions caused by taxation and the heterogeneity of taxpayers. In this paper, we theoretically and numerically explore the effect of imperfect taxation on the public provision of mortality risk reductions (or public safety). We show that this effect...

David Bardey, Manuel Fernandez et Alexis Gravel

n° 21-1189, février 2021

Using detailed daily information covering 100 countries and an event-study approach, we estimate the short run eects of implementing Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) on the spread of the COVID-19 virus at the early stages of the pandemic. We study the impact of two NPIs {stay-at-home...

Marcel Boyer

n° 21-1190, février 2021

Plusieurs voix s’élèvent pour réclamer une réforme en profondeur du capitalisme dans la foulée de la crise financière de 2008-2010, de l’augmentation des inégalités de revenu et de richesse des quatre dernières décennies et de l’urgence climatique dans un monde planétaire local. Il y a un réel...

Ayşegül Kanay, Denis Hilton, Laetitia Charalambides, Jean-Baptiste Corrégé, Eva Inaudi, Laurent Waroquier et Stéphane Cezera

n° 21-1191, février 2021

We compared the effectiveness of basket goal-setting to product information strategies on sustainable consumption in a simulated online supermarket. Experiment 1 found a significant effect of basket goal setting techniques with carbon basket feedback in either numerical or graphical form on the...

Lukas Dargel

n° 21-1192, février 2021

Taking advantage of a generalization of the matrix formulation introduced by LeSage and Pace (2008), this article presents improvements in the computational performance and flexibility of three estimators of spatial econometric interaction models. By generalizing computational techniques for the...

Ingela Alger, Konrad Dierks et Jean-François Laslier

n° 21-1193, février 2021, révision mai 2026

Why would voters incur costs to cast votes they believe are inconsequential? We show that a form of universalization ethics can help explain this “paradox of costly voting“. The political model has two candidates, a continuum of voters, a known underdog, and two novel elements: core voters (who...

Linqun Liu et Nicolas Treich

n° 21-1194, février 2021

This paper studies the role of risk attitudes in determining the optimality of winner-take-all contests. We compare the typical singlewinner lottery contest with two alternatives, both spreading the rewards to more players: through holding multiple prize-giving lottery competitions or through...

Nicolas Treich

n° 21-1197, février 2021

Cultured meat involves producing meat from animal cells, not from slaughtered animals. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with wide implications for the environment, health and animal welfare. The main purpose of this paper is to stimulate some economic research...

Ingela Alger, Konrad Dierks et Jean-François Laslier

n° 21-122, février 2021, révision mai 2026

Why would voters incur costs to cast votes they believe are inconsequential? We show that a form of universalization ethics can help explain this “paradox of costly voting“. The political model has two candidates, a continuum of voters, a known underdog, and two novel elements: core voters (who...

Mathias Reynaert et James M. Sallee

vol. 13, n° 1, février 2021, p. 372–412

Firms sometimes comply with externality-correcting policies by gaming the measure that determines policy. This harms buyers by eroding information, but it benefits them when cost savings are passed through into prices. We develop a model that highlights this tension and use it to analyze gaming of...