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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,...
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...
Marcel Boyer
février 2020
Gaëtan Fournier, Karine Van Der Straeten et Jörgen W. Weibull
n° 20-1072, février 2020
This paper studies a spatial competition game between two firms that sell a homogeneous good at some pre-determined fixed price. A population of consumers is spread out over the real line, and the two firms simultaneously choose location in this same space. When buying from one of the firms,...
Stéphane Lemarié, Valérie Orozco, Jean-Pierre Butault, Antonio Musolesi, Michel Simioni et Bertrand Schmitt
n° 20-173, février 2020
This paper analyses the economic impact of agricultural research on productivity in France over the period 1959-2012. Adopting a dynamic time series model, we provide evidence that the impact of French agricultural research is in the range of values estimated for other countries, with the estimated...
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...
Jérôme Gonnot
n° 20-1077, février 2020
This paper examines natives’ decision to grant political rights to foreign residents based on their contribution to a redistribution mechanism that finances a private and a public good. We propose a model where agents’ redistributive preferences are determined by their skill level and their...
Alexandre Gaillard et Sumudu Kankanamge
n° 20-1078, février 2020, révision juin 2020
How are the options to buy and sell a business relevant for entrepreneurs? Prospective entrepreneurs value the purchase of mature firms while incumbents want to recover both the tangible and intangible value of their businesses upon exit. We introduce a theory of entrepreneurial assets transfer...
Guy Alexander Cooper, Jorge Peña, Ming Liu et Stuart Andrew West
n° 20-104, février 2020
