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Daniel Coublucq, Marc Ivaldi et Gerard J. Mccullough
n° 18-916, avril 2018
Considering the US railroad industry, which is characterized by seven integrated firms that provide freight services on tracks they own and maintain, this paper provides a structural model that allows to evaluate the potential effects of opening the rail network to new firms on prices and...
Astrid Hopfensitz et Cesar Mantilla
n° 18-917, avril 2018
Emotion display serves as incentives or deterrents for others’ in many social interactions. We study the portrayal of anger and happiness, two emotions associated with dominance, and its relationship to team performance in a high stake environment. We analyze 4,318 pictures of players from 304...
Ian Schindler et Cyril Tintarev
avril 2018, p. 57–48
Jad M. Chaaban, Hala Ghattas, Alexandra Irani et Alban Thomas
vol. 10, n° 2, avril 2018, p. 457–472
We propose an empirical method for improving food assistance scoring and targeting, which minimizes under-coverage and leakage of food and cash assistance programs. The empirical strategy relies on a joint econometric estimation of food insecurity and economic vulnerability indicators at the...
Wei Hu et Nicolas Treich
vol. 38, n° 2, avril 2018, p. 720–724
In this paper, we consider an intergroup contest game with intragroup altruism. We show that more altruism within a group increases conflict intensity by increasing total groups' efforts. Moreover, we show that, unlike the celebrated Olson's group size paradox, group size increases the probability...
Nicolas Treich
vol. 33, avril 2018, p. 3–48
L’économie ne s’intéresse pas aux animaux. L’ambition de cet article est de stimuler des recherches en économie sur les animaux et le véganisme. Par véganisme, nous considérons tous les comportements visant à modifier (et pas seulement éliminer) l’utilisation ou la consommation d’animaux pour des...
Shruti Sinha
n° 18-897, mars 2018
This paper considers a one-to-one matching model with transferable utilities, in two-sided markets. In the model, the agents have preferences over some observable agent characteristics (called types) on the other side of the market. There are other observed characteristics aggregated at the level...
Cristina Gualdani
n° 17-898, mars 2018, révision juillet 2019
The paper provides a framework for partially identifying the parameters governing agents’ preferences in a static game of network formation with interdependent link decisions, complete information, and transferable or non-transferable payoffs. The proposed methodology attenuates the computational...
Marc Ivaldi et Catherine Muller-Vibes
n° 18-900, mars 2018
In this paper, we empirically analyze the French print media market by modeling the existence of a reciprocal effect between the size of the readership and the amount of advertising. For this two-sided platform, we measure the cross-effects of advertising on the readership and periodical popularity...
Douadia Bougherara et Céline Nauges
n° 18-903, mars 2018
The purpose of this article is to further our understanding of input choices (such as pesticides or fertilisers) when producers face production risk that depends on a random shock and on the quantity of input used. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of risk preferences and public...
