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Céline Nauges et Jean-Paul Chavas

vol. 42, n° 1, mars 2020, p. 42–53

Adoption of agricultural innovations has been an important factor affecting the welfare of farmers, the productivity of agriculture and the economics of the food sector. This paper reviews the literature on technology adoption in agriculture with a focus on the role of uncertainty and learning. It...

Han Bleichrodt, David Crainich, Louis Eeckhoudt et Nicolas Treich

vol. 89, mars 2020, p. 137–149

Diagnostic tests allow better informed medical decisions when there is uncertainty about a patient’s health status and, therefore, about the desirability to undertake treatment. This paper studies the relation between the expected value of diagnostic information and a patient's risk aversion. We...

Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim, Jonathan Schulz, Joseph Henrich, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon et Iyad Rahwan

vol. 579, n° E3-E5, mars 2020

Emilie Salvia, Katell Mevel, Grégoire Borst, Nicolas Poirel, Grégory Simon, François Orliac, Olivier Etard, Astrid Hopfensitz, Olivier Houdé, Jean-François Bonnefon et Wim De Neys

vol. 13, n° 1, mars 2020, p. 19–33

Some economic transactions require people to trust strangers, whose trustworthiness is unknown. In these circumstances, behavioral studies have shown that adults (but not young adolescents) seem to have some minimal ability to detect the trustworthiness of adult strangers based on their facial...

Céline Bonnet et Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache

vol. 61, n° 105872, mars 2020

The paper proposes a five-step methodology based on the estimation of demand and supply models to test the existence of manufacturers’ collusive behaviour and evaluate its impact on market and welfare. This methodology allows for the estimation of profit sharing in vertical chains by properly...

Jean-Pierre Florens, Léopold Simar et Ingrid Van Keilegom

vol. 115, n° 529, mars 2020, p. 425–451

Jorge Peña, Georg Nöldeke et Oscar Puebla

vol. 195, n° 3, mars 2020, p. 524–533

Egg trading—whereby simultaneous hermaphrodites exchange each other’s eggs for fertilization—constitutes one of the few rigorously documented and most widely cited examples of direct reciprocity among unrelated individuals. Yet how egg trading may initially invade a population of nontrading...

Sylvie Borau et Jean-François Bonnefon

vol. 120, mars 2020, p. 498–508

Stéphane Straub et Julia Bird

vol. 127, mars 2020

This paper studies the impact of the rapid expansion of the Brazilian road network, which occurred from the 1960s to the 2000s, on the growth and spatial allocation of population and economic activity across the country's municipalities. It addresses the problem of endogeneity in infrastructure...

Dominik Sachs, Aleh Tsyvinski et Nicolas Werquin

vol. 88, n° 2, mars 2020, p. 469–493

We study the incidence of nonlinear labor income taxes in an economy with a continuum of endogenous wages. We derive in closed form the effects of reforming nonlinearly an arbitrary tax system, by showing that this problem can be formalized as an integral equation. Our tax incidence formulas are...