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Elisabetta Iossa, Simon Loertscher, Leslie Marx et Patrick Rey
n° 20-1084, mars 2020
Collusive schemes by suppliers often take the form of allocating customers or markets among cartel members. We analyze incentives for suppliers to initiate and sustain such a collusive schemes in a repeated procurement setting. We show that, contrary to some prevailing beliefs, staggered (versus...
Christian Gollier et Olivier Gossner
mars 2020
It is well-known that group testing is an efficient strategy to screen for the presence of a virus. It consists in pooling n individual samples with a single test using RT-PCR. If at least one individual is infected, the test is positive, and it is negative otherwise. We show how group testing can...
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...
Karine Van Der Straeten, Christopher Anderson, Luc Arrondel, André Blais, Jean-François Daoust et Jean-François Laslier
vol. 1, n° 18, mars 2020, p. 91–110
It is widely assumed that celebrities are imbued with political capital and the power to move opinion. To understand the sources of that capital in the specific domain of sports celebrity, we investigate the popularity of global soccer superstars. Specifically, we examine players’ success in the...
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...
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...
Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff et Iyad Rahwan
vol. 63, n° 3, mars 2020, p. 48–55
Nicolas Dupuis, Marc Ivaldi et Jérôme Pouyet
vol. 19, n° 1, mars 2020, p. 1–41
We study the welfare impact of revenue management, a practice which is widely spread in the transport industry, but whose impact on consumer surplus remains unclear. We develop a theoretical model of revenue management allowing for heterogeneity in product characteristics, capacity constraints,...
Jean-Pierre Florens, Léopold Simar et Ingrid Van Keilegom
vol. 115, n° 529, mars 2020, p. 425–451
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
