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Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti et François Salanié
vol. 130, n° 630, août 2020, p. 1608–1622
We study resource allocation under private information when the planner cannot prevent bilateral side trading between consumers and firms. Adverse selection and side trading severely restrict feasible trades: each marginal quantity must be fairly priced given the consumer types who purchase it. The...
Vincent Rebeyrol
n° 20-1131, août 2020, révision avril 2023
This paper shows that Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) may fully respect the non-discrimination principle of the WTO and still act as a protectionist device. NTMs that raise the costs of all firms induce some exit and thus reallocate market shares towards the most efficient firms. The paper analyzes when...
Koléhè Coulibaly-Pasquier et Laurent Miclo
n° 20-1130, août 2020
Eric Reinhart et Daniel L. Chen
vol. 39, n° 8, août 2020, p. 1412–1418
Jails and prisons are major sites of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Many jurisdictions in the United States have therefore accelerated the release of low-risk offenders. Early release, however, does not address how arrest and pretrial detention practices may be contributing to disease...
Jérôme Renault et Bruno Ziliotto
vol. 45, n° 3, août 2020, p. 889–895
Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu et Manh-Hung Nguyen
n° 20-1136, août 2020
This paper studies optimal quarantines (can also be interpreted as lockdowns or selfisolation) when there is an infectious disease with SIS dynamics and infections can cause disease related mortality in a dynamic general equilibrium neoclassical growth framework. We characterize the optimal...
Ingela Alger et Donald Cox
n° 20-1139, août 2020
Tuan Anh Luong et Manh-Hung Nguyen
n° 20-1137, août 2020
In this paper, we investigate the impact of containment and closure poli- cies amid the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market. We show that these effects depend on the presence of labor uncertainty. In the absence of labor uncertainty, the containment and closure policy resulted in people applying...
Jean-Pierre Amigues, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Gilles Lafforgue et Michel Moreaux
n° 20-1138, août 2020
In order to encourage substitution of fossil fuels by cleaner renewables, regulatory agencies have generally chosen between two types of renewable energy standards. They have either mandated a minimum volume of renewable energy as in the case of ethanol in transport fuels, and for electricity in...
Alban Thomas, Claire Lamine, Benjamin Allès, Yuna Chiffoleau, Antoine Doré, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier et Mourad Hannachi
vol. 101, août 2020, p. 23–46
We discuss in this paper the role of the economic and social organization in agriculture and the food industry, in relation with the Health-Agriculture-Food-Environment (HAFEN) concept. The aim is to better understand the potential impact of the implementation of this concept in food consumption...
