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Reed Walker (UC Berkeley)
17–18 mai 2018, salle MS 001
Mar Reguant (Northwestern University)
Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University)
Christian Gollier et Miles S. Kimball
n° 18-909, avril 2018
The Diffidence Theorem, together with complementary tools, can aid in illuminating a broad set of questions about how to mathematically characterize the set of utility functions with specified economic properties. This paper establishes the technique and illustrates its application to many...
Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan et Thi-Huong Trinh
n° 18-910, avril 2018
Vietnam is undergoing a nutritional transition like many middle-income countries. This paper proposes to highlight the socio-demographic drivers of this transition over the period 2004-2014. We implement a method of decomposition of between-year differences in economic outcomes recently proposed in...
Catherine Bobtcheff, Claude Crampes et Yassine Lefouili
n° 18-911, avril 2018
This note examines how an exogenous industry-wide demand shock, such as the one resulting from the use of governmental subsidies, affects the exclusionary potential of learning-by-doing. We develop a two-period duopoly model in which an increase in a firm's first-period output leads to a decrease...
Doh-Shin Jeon
n° 18-912, avril 2018
The success of news aggregators has generated a heated debate about whether news aggregators steal traffic from newspapers or increase traffic to newspapers. This survey article provides an overview of recent articles on news aggregators. After providing a simple theoretical framework, I first...
Erica Doro et Vincent Réquillart
n° 18-913, avril 2018
Food systems in developed countries face one major challenge, namely the promotion of diets that are both healthy and generate less greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). In this article, we review papers evaluating the impact of a change in diets on both health and GHGE. We address the following...
Thomas Mariotti, Nikolaus Schweizer, Nora Szech et Jonas von Wangenheim
n° 18-914, avril 2018, révision juin 2021
We study the optimal design of information nudges for present-biased consumers who make sequential consumption decisions without exact prior knowledge of their long-term consequences. For any distribution of risks, there exists a consumer-optimal information nudge that is of cutoff type,...
Marc Ivaldi et Vicente Lagos
n° 18-915, avril 2018
The Coordinate Price Pressure Index (CPPI) measures the incentives of two competitors to engage in a particular type of Parallel Accommodating Conduct (PAC). Specifically, it measures the incentives of a leader firm to initiate a unilateral percentage price increase, with the expectation that a...
