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Stéphan Marette et Vincent Réquillart

n° 20-1118, juin 2020

This introductory article presents the three main challenges faced in economics to issues raised by dietary models. The first part of this paper examines the dietary models that maximise the health profile of a population under various constraints, including environmental and agronomic criteria....

Lauren Bader, J.M. Ward, H.B. Moran, Hillary Fouts et Julia Jaekel

vol. 7, n° 6, juin 2020, p. 1–19

Refugees often parent under extreme circumstances. Parenting practices have implications for child outcomes, and parenting in the context of refugee resettlement is likely to be dynamic as parents negotiate a new culture. This study examined African origin mothers’ infant care values and practices...

Matthieu Bouvard et Samuel Lee

vol. 33, n° 6, juin 2020, p. 2468–2505

We study a model in which firms compete preemptively for trading opportunities and risk management introduces latency in trading. As the time pressure faced by firms is endogenous to risk management choices, strategic complementarities can trigger a “race to the bottom” where prioritizing trade...

Jane Conway, Michel-Pierre Coll, Helio Clemente Cuve, Sofia Koletsi, Nicholas Bronitt, Caroline Catmur et Geoffrey Bird

vol. 149, n° 6, juin 2020, p. 1032–1047

The human ability to make inferences about the minds of conspecifics is remarkable. The majority of work in this area focuses on mental state representation (‘theory of mind’), but has had limited success in explaining individual differences in this ability, and is characterized by the lack of a...

Michael Magill, Jean-Charles Rochet et Martine Quinzii

vol. 112, juin 2020, p. 113–128

A simple equilibrium model is presented which permits the joint study of optimal Central Bank prudential, monetary and balance sheet policies in the pre and post 2008 Crisis periods. It explains the new policies—the purchase of risky securities (QE), payment of interest on reserves (IR) and use of...

David Martimort, Jérôme Pouyet et Carine Staropoli

vol. 29, n° 3, juin 2020, p. 605–634

Gabrielle Demange et Karine Van Der Straeten

vol. 174, juin 2020, p. 402–419

This paper proposes an analysis of strategic communication on platforms by candidates during an electoral campaign. A candidate's platform in a (possibly) multidimensional policy space is fixed, but is imperfectly known by voters. A candidate strategically decides the emphasis he puts on the...

Antoine Fages, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Mietje Germonpré et Ludovic Orlando

vol. 31, juin 2020

The domestication of the horse and the development of new equestrian technologies have had a far-reaching impact on human history. Disentangling the respective role that horse males and females played during this process is, however, difficult based on iconography and osteological data alone. In...

Matthieu Bouvard et Raphaël Lévy

vol. 18, n° 3, juin 2020, p. 1444–1483

We study how a decision maker uses his reputation to simultaneously influence the actions of multiple receivers with heterogenous biases. The reputational payoff is single-peaked around a bliss reputation at which the incentives of the average receiver are perfectly aligned. We evidence two...

Rida Laraki et Jérôme Renault

vol. 45, n° 4, juin 2020, p. 1237–1257

We consider 2-player zero-sum stochastic games where each player controls his own state variable living in a compact metric space. The terminology comes from gambling problems where the state of a player represents its wealth in a casino. Under standard assumptions (e.g. continuous running payoff...