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Nina Hestermann, Yves Le Yaouanq et Nicolas Treich

vol. 129, n° 103569, octobre 2020

Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this “meat paradox” using insights from the literature on motivated reasoning in moral dilemmata. We develop a model where individuals form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals...

Megan Arnot, Eva Brandl, Olk Campbell, Yuan Chen, Juan Du, Mark Dyble, Erhao Ge, Emily Emmott, Luke Kretschmer, Ruth Mace, Alberto Micheletti, Sarah Nila, Sarah Peacey, Hanzhi Zhang et Gul Deniz Salali

n° eoaa038, octobre 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology, virology, and public health, with most behavioural advice in public health focussing squarely on ‘proximate’ determinants of...

Jihyun Kim et Nour Meddahi

vol. 218, n° 2, octobre 2020, p. 690–713

Nowadays, a common method to forecast integrated variance is to use the fitted value of a simple OLS autoregression of the realized variance. However, non-parametric estimates of the tail index of this realized variance process reveal that its second moment is possibly unbounded. In this case, the...

Anna D’Annunzio, M. Mardan et Antonio Russo

vol. 51, n° 3, octobre 2020, p. 786–804

Daniel L. Chen

vol. 7, n° 2, octobre 2020, p. 190–221

This paper builds and tests a model of marriage as an incomplete contract that arises from asymmetric virginity premiums and examines whether this can lead to social inefficiencies. Contrary to the efficient households hypothesis, women cannot prevent being appropriated by men once they enter...

Christian Bontemps et Rohit Kumar

vol. 218, n° 2, octobre 2020, p. 373–389

In this paper, we consider inference procedures for entry games with complete information. Due to the presence of multiple equilibria, we know that such a model may be set identified without imposing further restrictions. We complete the model with the unknown selection mechanism and characterize...

Jean-François Bonnefon et Iyad Rahwan

vol. 24, n° 12, octobre 2020, p. 1019–1027

Intelligent machines do not really think ‘fast and slow’ as per dual-process models of human psychology, but this analogy can impact the decisions of various stakeholders. These stakeholders include engineers, user experience designers, regulators and ethicists, and the end users who interact with...

Kendric Hood

TSE, 27 octobre 2020, 17h15–17h30, salle Online

Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University)

TSE, 27 octobre 2020, 16h45–17h15, salle Online

Wei Jiang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

TSE, 27 octobre 2020, 16h15–16h45, salle Online