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Linda Cobiac, Xavier Irz, Pascal Leroy, Vincent Réquillart, Peter Scarborough et Louis-Georges Soler
n° 73, 2019, p. 1033–1039
The goal of this article is to present and demonstrate the applicability of an original method to assess the economic and health impacts of compliance with food-based recommendations. The method takes account of consumers’ preferences and the associated adoption cost in the assessment of various...
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Vincent Réquillart et Laurent Sirugue
vol. 74, 2019, p. 193–202
Dans le cadre d’une recherche sur les substitutions entre produits végétaux et produits animaux, nous étudions l’adoption par les consommateurs des « yaourts » au soja. Nous montrons tout d’abord qu’après 30 ans d’existence, les yaourts au soja ne représentent que 2% du marché global des yaourts....
Richard Green (Imperial College London)
Atria Mercure Compans Caffarelli, Toulouse, France, 2019
Frank Wolak (Stanford University)
Daniel L. Chen, Yosh Halberstam, Manoj Kumar et Alan Yu
2019sous la direction de Michael Livermore et Daniel Rockmore, Santa Fe Institute Press, 2019
Using data from 1946–2014, we show that audio features of lawyers’ introductory statements improve the performance of the best prediction models of Supreme Court outcomes. We infer voice attributes using a 15-year sample of human-labeled Supreme Court advocate voices. Audio features improved...
Farid Gasmi, Laura Recuero Virto et Denis Couvet
n° 19-1058, décembre 2019
In a dataset on 83 countries covering the years 1960 through 2009, we find a negative indirect effect of the share of renewable natural capital in wealth on economic growth transmitted through demographic factors, more specifically, population fertility. In contrast, in countries with lower income...
Marcel Boyer
n° 19-1059, décembre 2019
The CEO pay ratio, measured as the ratio of CEO pay over the median salary of a firm’s employees, is the most often quoted number in the popular press. This ratio has reached 281 this last year for S&P500 firms, the largest US firms by capitalization (as of November 21 2019). But the B-ratio I...
Nicolas Treich et Linqun Liu
n° 19-1060, décembre 2019
It has been established in the literature that, under the assumption of risk-neutral contestants, it is usually optimal for an effort-maximizing contest organizer with a fixed prize budget to award everything to a single winner. This paper studies the role of risk attitudes – risk aversion and...
Philippe De Donder et Marie-Louise Leroux
n° 19-1061, décembre 2019, révision août 2021
We study the demand for actuarially fair Long Term Care (LTC hereafter) insurance in a setting where autonomous agents only care for daily life consumption while dependent agents also care for LTC expenditures. We assume that dependency decreases the marginal utility of daily life consumption. We...
Jean Tirole et Mathias Dewatripont
décembre 2019
Do markets promote unethical behavior? This paper studies how the replacement logic impacts ethical behavior when suppliers are driven by both profit and ethical concerns. To this purpose, it proposes a unified model encompassing the three possible wedges between client and social demands:...
