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Yuting Yang
n° 20-1075, février 2020
Electricity interconnection has been recognized as a way to mitigate carbon emissions by dispatching more efficient electricity production and accommodating the growing share of renewables. I analyze the impact of electricity interconnection in the presence of intermittent renewables, such as...
Alexandre de Cornière et Greg Taylor
n° 20-1076, février 2020, révision décembre 2021
What role does data play in competition? This question has been at the center of a fierce debate around competition policy in the digital economy. We use a competition-in-utilities approach to provide a general framework for studying the competitive effects of data, encompassing a wide range of...
Fabien Gensbittel et Miquel Oliu-Barton
vol. 10, février 2020, p. 819–835
Using the duality techniques introduced by De Meyer (Math Oper Res 21:209–236, 1996a, Math Oper Res 21:237–251, 1996b), Rosenberg (Int J Game Theory 27:577–597, 1998) and De Meyer and Marino (Cahiers de la MSE 27, 2005) provided an explicit construction for optimal strategies in repeated games with...
Nicoletta Berardi et Paul Seabright
vol. 176, n° 3, février 2020, p. 572–594
This paper investigates an unexplored rationale for joint ownership of a production project. We model projects with autocorrelated productivity shocks as creating an option value of investing over time so that later investments benefit from the information revealed by the realization of earlier...
Marcel Boyer
février 2020
Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Sohan Dsouza, Joshua Tenenbaum, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon et Iyad Rahwan
vol. 4, n° 2, février 2020, p. 134–143
When an automated car harms someone, who is blamed by those who hear about it? Here we asked human participants to consider hypothetical cases in which a pedestrian was killed by a car operated under shared control of a primary and a secondary driver and to indicate how blame should be allocated....
Alban Thomas et Raja Chakir
n° 20-1066, janvier 2020
Set-aside policies providing agronomic and ecological benefits have been mainstream practices in European agriculture. Because they may lead to intensification on cultivated land, they can however have mixed environmental effects. To evaluate the indirect impact of a set-aside policy on crop...
Matteo Bobba et Veronica Frisancho
n° 20-1070, janvier 2020, révision juin 2020
A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from middle...
Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez-Torres et Josepa Miquel-Florensa
n° 20-1071, janvier 2020
We present evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, conducted in eight small, rural villages in Mexico, in which subjects choose to exert real effort to fund real health centers in their own and other localities. We find that women are more willing than men to exert effort to fund the health...
Louis-Georges Soler et Alban Thomas
n° 20-1067, janvier 2020, révision avril 2020
In the scientific literature, the debate on health and environmental benefits of a reduction in the share of animal-sourced food, in particular beef, in consumer diets is mostly focused on demand-side vs. supply transitions. We discuss in this paper the necessary conditions for a win-win scenario...
