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Sébastien Gadat, Sebastien Gerchinovitz et Clément Marteau
n° 18-904, mars 2018
We consider the binary supervised classification problem with the Gaussian functional model introduced in [7]. Taking advantage of the Gaussian structure, we design a natural plug-in classifier and derive a family of upper bounds on its worst-case excess risk over Sobolev spaces. These bounds are...
Manon Costa, Sébastien Gadat, Pauline Gonnord et Laurent Risser
n° 18-905, mars 2018
In this paper we consider a statistical estimation problem known as atomic deconvolution. Introduced in reliability, this model has a direct application when considering biological data produced by flow cytometers. In these experiments, biologists measure the fluorescence emission of treated cells...
Elie Gray, André Grimaud et David Le Bris
n° 18-906, mars 2018
To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious...
Marc Bourreau, Bruno Jullien et Yassine Lefouili
n° 18-907, mars 2018, révision juillet 2024
We study the impact of horizontal mergers on the incentives of merging firms to invest in incremental innovation. We provide a decomposition of this impact that clarifies the various forces at work and the differences between demand-enhancing and cost-reducing innovation. Moreover, we derive...
Christian Belzil et François Poinas
n° 18-908, mars 2018
We estimate a structural model of education choices in which individuals choose between a professional (or technical) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98 ). The average per-period utility of attending general high school (about 10,000...
Daron Acemoglu et Pascual Restrepo
n° 24421, mars 2018
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular, to more intensive use and development of robots. Using US data, we document that robots substitute for middle-aged workers (those between the ages of 36 and 55). We then show that...
Christian Bontemps
n° 18-883, mars 2018
This paper considers moment-based tests applied to estimated quantities. We propose a general class of transforms of moments to handle the parameter uncertainty problem. The construction requires only a linear correction that can be implemented in-sample and remains valid for some extended families...
Jean-François Bonnefon
vol. 37, n° 1, mars 2018, p. 113–119
The dual-process model of cognition but most especially its reflective component, system 2 processing, shows strong conceptual links with critical thinking. In fact, the salient characteristics of system 2 processing are so strikingly close to that of critical thinking, that it is tempting to claim...
François Cochard, Hélène Couprie et Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 21, n° 1, mars 2018, p. 50–71
Female specialization on household work and male specialization on labor-market work is a widely observed phenomenon across time and countries. This absence of gender neutrality with respect to work-division is known as the “work-division puzzle”. Gender differences regarding characteristics (...
Abdelaati Daouia, Stéphane Girard et Gilles Stupfler
vol. 80, n° Série B, mars 2018, p. 263–292
We use tail expectiles to estimate alternative measures to the Value at Risk (VaR), Expected Shortfall (ES) and Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES), three instruments of risk protection of utmost importance in actuarial science and statistical finance. The concept of expectiles is a least squares...
