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Jean-Pierre Florens, Léopold Simar et Ingrid Van Keilegom

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

Jérôme Bolte et Edouard Pauwels

n° 20-1080, mars 2020

Counterexamples to some old-standing optimization problems in the smooth convex coercive setting are provided. We show that block-coordinate, steepest descent with exact search or Bregman descent methods do not generally converge. Other failures of various desirable features are established:...

Pascal Bégout et Jésus Ildefonso Diaz

vol. 7, n° 268, 15 mars 2020, p. 4029–4058

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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....

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...

Caio Almeida, Kim Ardison et René Garcia

vol. 214, n° 2, février 2020, p. 349–378

Jean-François Bonnefon, Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza et Azim Shariff

vol. 117, n° 5, février 2020, p. 2332–2337

Marco Battaglini et Bård Harstad

vol. 128, n° 2, février 2020, p. 544–590

In recent decades, democratic countries have negotiated hundreds of international treaties and agreements. This paper analyzes the equilibrium design of treaties negotiated by political incumbents seeking reelections. We show that incumbents are prone to negotiate treaties that are "weak" in that...

Lei XU, Tingting Nian et Luis Cabral

vol. 66, n° 2, février 2020, p. 587–604

Many online platforms rely on users to voluntarily provide content. What motivates users to contribute content for free however is not well understood. In this paper, we use a revealed preference approach to show that career concerns play an important role in user contributions to Stack Overflow,...