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Marcel Boyer

n° 20-1166, novembre 2020

Thibault Laurent, Christine Thomas-Agnan et Anne Ruiz-Gazen

n° 20-1162, novembre 2020, révision octobre 2021

Spatial simultaneous autoregressive models have been adapted to model data with both a geographic and a compositional nature. Interpretation of parameters in such a model is intricate. Indeed, when the model involves a spatial lag of the dependent variable, this interpretation must focus on...

Christian Gollier

vol. 70, n° 4, novembre 2020, p. 913–941

We assume that the ex-post utility of an agent facing a menu of lotteries depends upon the actual payoff together with its forgone best alternative, thereby allowing for the expost emotion of regret. An increase in the risk of regret is obtained when the actual payoff and its forgone best...

Anna D’Annunzio et Antonio Russo

vol. 66, n° 11, novembre 2020, p. 5040–5058

Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith et Martin O'Connell

vol. 110, n° 11, novembre 2020, p. 3661–3704

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. Policymakers highlight the young, particularly from poor backgrounds, and high sugar consumers as groups whose behavior they would most like to influence. There are also concerns about the policy being regressive. We assess who are most impacted...

Emmanuelle Lavaine, Philippe Majerus et Nicolas Treich

n° 20-1158, novembre 2020

Although animal agriculture is critical to the subsistence of smallholders in some poor countries, the global detrimental impact of animal farming is now both well documented and overwhelming. Animal farming is a primary cause of deforestation (De Sy et al., 2015), biodiversity loss (Machovina et...

Romain Espinosa et Nicolas Treich

n° 20-1159, novembre 2020

NGOs often vary in terms of how radical they are. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of NGO discourses in bringing about social change. We focus on animal advocacy: welfarist NGOs primarily seek to improve the conditions in which animals are raised and reduce meat consumption, while...

Pierre Dubois et Morten Sæthre

vol. 88, n° 6, novembre 2020, p. 2503–2545

Differences in regulated pharmaceutical prices within the European Economic Area create arbitrage opportunities that pharmacy retailers can access through parallel imports. For prescription drugs under patent, parallel trade affects the sharing of profits among an innovating pharmaceutical company...

Arnaud Tognetti, Valérie Durand, Mélissa Barkat-Defradas et Astrid Hopfensitz

vol. 111, n° 4, novembre 2020, p. 823–839

The sound of the voice has several acoustic features that influence the perception of how cooperative the speaker is. It remains unknown, however, whether these acoustic features are associated with actual cooperative behaviour. This issue is crucial to disentangle whether inferences of traits from...

Jad Beyhum

vol. 24, novembre 2020, p. 688–702

This paper considers the problem of inference in a linear regression model with outliers where the number of outliers can grow with sample size but their proportion goes to 0. We apply an estimator penalizing the `1-norm of a random vector which is non-zero for outliers. We derive rates of...