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Paul-Henri Moisson et Jean Tirole
mai 2020
The paper studies discriminatory hiring by an organization whose members’ cooptation decisions are driven by two motives: quality and homophily. Small variations in the initial quality or diversity of the organization may lead to virtuous or vicious spirals. In order to avoid depriving itself of...
Thomas S. Kraft, Vivek Venkataraman, Karen L. Endicott et Kirk M. Endicott
vol. 29, n° 3, mai 2020, p. 117–124
The human evolutionary sciences place high value on quantitative data from traditional small‐scale societies that are rapidly modernizing. These data often stem from the sustained ethnographic work of anthropologists who are today nearing the end of their careers. Yet many quantitative ethnographic...
Georg Nöldeke et Jorge Peña
vol. 88, mai 2020, p. 42–51
We consider how group size affects the private provision of a public good with non-refundable binary contributions. A fixed amount of the good is provided if and only if the number of contributors reaches an exogenous threshold. The threshold, the group size, and the identical, non-refundable cost...
Alexander Guembel et Oren Sussman
vol. 87, n° 3, mai 2020, p. 1296–1330
We study a two-country setting in which leveraged investors generate fire-sale externalities, leading to financial crises and contagion. Governments can affect the incidence of financial crisis and the degree of contagion by injecting public liquidity and, additionally, by segmenting the countries...
Gonçalo Faria, Andy Gardner et Pau Carazo
vol. 4, mai 2020, p. 1141–1148
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the overlap between kin selection and sexual selection, particularly concerning how kin selection can put the brakes on harmful sexual conflict. However, there remains a significant disconnect between theory and empirical research. Whilst empirical...
Sreemati Mitter
vol. 52, n° 2, mai 2020, p. 289–310
In the late 1930s, the first independent Arab banks in Palestine, the Arab Bank and the Arab Agricultural Bank, sued customers who had defaulted on loans in an attempt to maintain solvency. Their indebted customers, unable to pay, fought back to prevent their lands from being foreclosed and sold to...
Stefan Ambec et Claude Crampes
n° 20-1087, avril 2020, révision décembre 2020
The presence of consumers able to respond to changes in wholesale electricity prices facilitates the penetration of renewable intermittent sources of energy such as wind or sun power. We investigate how adapting demand to intermittent electricity supply by making consumers price-responsive - thanks...
Thibault Laurent, Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley et Olivier de Mouzon
n° 54, avril 2020, p. 363–395
Alexis Carlier et Nicolas Treich
vol. 14, n° 1, avril 2020, p. 113–152
Research in economics is anthropocentric. It only cares about the welfare of humans, and usually does not concern itself with animals. When it does, animals are treated as resources, biodiversity, or food. That is, animals only have instrumental value for humans. Yet unlike water, trees or...
James K. Hammitt, P. Morfeld, J.T Tuomisto et T.C Erren
vol. 40, n° 4, avril 2020, p. 674–695
