Recherche avancée

Arnaud Pocheville, Sabine Noebel, Guillaume Isabel et Etienne Danchin

vol. 366, n° 6462, 11 octobre 2019

Thornquist and Crickmore claim that systematic experimental error may explain the results of Danchin and colleagues. Their claim rests on mistakes in their analyses, for which we provide corrections. We reassert that conformity in fruitflies predicts long-lasting mate-preference traditions.

Koen Jochmans et Martin Weidner

n° 87, septembre 2019, p. 1543–1560

Emmanuelle Auriol et Josepa Miquel-Florensa

vol. 14, n° 3, septembre 2019, p. 453–477

We present a model with two donors-principals that provide funds to a unique recipient-agent. Each donor decides how to allocate his aid funds between a pooled and a donor specific unilateral project. Both principals and the agent value the output produced with the principals' pooled and two...

Francesca De Petrillo et Alexandra Rosati

vol. 40, n° 5, septembre 2019, p. 436–446

Humans can use an intuitive sense of statistics to make predictions about uncertain future events, a cognitive skill that underpins logical and mathematical reasoning. Recent research shows that some of these abilities for statistical inferences can emerge in preverbal infants and non-human...

Vincent Réquillart, Xavier Irz, J. Jensen, Pascal Leroy et Louis-Georges Soler

vol. 99, septembre 2019, p. 169–177

We investigate ex-ante the effects of promoting simple climate-friendly diet recommendations in Denmark, Finland and France, with the objective of identifying cost-beneficial recommendations that lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health. The simulation approach combines a...

Daniel F. Garrett

vol. 77, n° 3, septembre 2019, p. 375–382

Some sellers display high "regular" prices, but mark down these prices the vast majority of the time, advertising the good as "on sale" or "discounted". This note suggests a framework for understanding the practice, emphasizing the role of buyer uncertainty about their future valuations for the...

Tim Bollerslev, Nour Meddahi et Serge Nyawa

vol. 212, n° 1, septembre 2019, p. 116–136

Jean-Pierre Amigues et Michel Moreaux

vol. 97, septembre 2019, p. 92–115

We study the transition to a carbon-free economy in a model with a polluting non-renewable resource and a clean renewable resource. Transforming primary energy into ready-to-use energy services is costly and more efficient energy transformation rates are more costly to achieve. Renewable energy...

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer et Kerstin Roeder

vol. 118, septembre 2019, p. 37–50

The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they...

Philippe Bontems et Céline Nauges

vol. 46, n° 4, septembre 2019, p. 579–608