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Isis Durrmeyer et Mario Samano
vol. 128, n° 616, décembre 2018, p. 3076–3116
We compare the welfare effects in equilibrium of two environmental regulations that aim at increasing the new cars fleet’s average fuel efficiency: the fuel economy standards and the feebate policies. Maintaining the same environmental benefit and tax revenue, we simulate the implementation of each...
Louis-Georges Soler et Marine Spiteri
vol. 72, n° 2, 2018, p. 228–235
Céline Bonnet, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache et Timothy J. Richards
vol. 45, n° 3, 2018, p. 297–331
Bargaining power in vertical channels depends critically on the "disagreement profit" or the opportunity cost to each player should negotiations fail. In a multiproduct context, disagreement profit depends on the degree of substitutability among the products offered by the downstream retailer. Horn...
Marion Robert, Alban Thomas, Muddu Sekhar, Hélène Raynal, Éric Casellas, Pierre Casel, Patrick Chabrier, Alexandre Joannon et Jacques Eric Bergez
2018, p. 123–135
Nina Hestermann et Nicolas Pistolesi
vol. 211, 2018, p. 177–193
This study assesses the impact of a French educational policy reform aimed at improving the match between students and their chosen field of study at university. As part of this reform, upon applying for entry to an undergraduate degree course, students are informed about their likelhood of...
Daniel L. Chen, Matt Dunn, Levent Sagun et Hale Sirin
2018
Early Predictability of Asylum Court Decisions with M. Dunn and L. Sagun In the United States, foreign nationals who fear persecution in their home country can apply for asylum under the Refugee Act of 1980. Unfortunately, over the past decade, legal scholarship has uncovered significant...
Daniel L. Chen et Jess Eagel
In this study, we analyzed 492,903 asylum hearings from 336 different hearing locations, rendered by 441 unique judges over a thirty-two year period from 1981-2013. We define the problem of asylum adjudication prediction as a binary classification task, and using the random forest method developed...
Samuele Centorrino, Jean-Pierre Florens et Jeffrey S. Racine
vol. 30, n° 2, 2018, p. 368–391
The focus of this paper is the nonparametric estimation of the marginal effects (i.e. first partial derivatives) of an instrumental regression function ? defined by conditional moment restrictions that stem from a structural econometric model , and involve endogenous variables Y and Z and...
Eric Gautier et Erwan Le Pennec
vol. 12, n° 1, 2018, p. 277–320
Bert Willems et Gijsbert Zwart
vol. 49, n° 1, Spring 2018, p. 23–42
We model the regulation of irreversible capacity expansion by a firm with private information about capacity costs, where investments are financed from the firm’s cash flows and demand is stochastic. The optimal mechanism is implemented by a revenue tax that increases with the price cap. If the...
