Recherche avancée

Ana Gazmuri

septembre 2017

Critics of school choice argue that when private schools compete with public schools, they select the best public school students (cream-skim), increasing socioeconomic segregation. I study the mechanisms that underlie student sorting in a mixed public-private system using a 2008 education reform...

Emmanuel Thibault

vol. 68, n° 3, septembre 2017, p. 333–351

Hayyan Alia, Cécile Bazart, Mohamed Ali Bchir, Serge Blondel, Mihaela Bonescu, Alexandrine Bornier, Joëlle Brouard, Nathalie Chappe, François Cochard, Alexandre Flage, Andrea Galeotti, Xavier Hollandts, Astrid Hopfensitz, Marianne Lefebvre, Mélody Leplat, Youenn Loheac, Cesar Mantilla, Guillermo Mateu, Guillaume Peron, Emmanuel Peterle, Emmanuel Petit, Eva Raiber, Julie Rosaz, Anne Rozan, Jean-Christian Tisserand, Marie-Claire Villeval, Marc Willinger et Adam Zylbersztejn

septembre 2017

Astrid Hopfensitz et Josepa Miquel-Florensa

vol. 13, n° 3, septembre 2017, p. 623–648

We analyze how Costa Rican coffee farmer's behavior in an experimental public good game depends on the type of mill where the farmers sell their coffee (Cooperative vs. privately owned mills), and on the background of their game partners (partners selling to same type of mill or not). We find that...

Alberto Grillo

vol. 172, n° 3-4, septembre 2017, p. 465–482

The empirical literature on the effects of opinion polls on election outcomes has recently found substantial evidence of a bandwagon effect, defined as the phenomenon according to which the publication of opinion polls is advantageous to the candidate with the greatest support. This result is...

Roberto Sarkisian

vol. 8, n° 3, septembre 2017

This paper studies incentives provision when agents are characterized either by homo moralis preferences (Alger and Weibull, 2013, 2016), i.e. their utility is represented by a convex combination of selfish preferences and Kantian morality, or by altruism. In a moral hazard in teams setting with...

Ingela Alger et Jörgen W. Weibull

n° 17-833, août 2017

Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some light on this complex and non-trivial issue by examining a few canonical strategic interactions played by egoists, altruists and moralists. By altruists we mean people who do not...

Céline Bonnet, James Hilger et Sofia B. Villas-Boas

n° 17-834, août 2017, révision mai 2019

We estimate the effect of revealing expert opinion labels on wine product purchases through a field experiment where a random subset of wine products within the con- sumers' retail shelf choice set are labeled in the treatment store. We use a detailed weekly product level panel scanner data set for...

Stéphane Caprice et Shiva Shekhar

n° 17-835, août 2017

Large retailers competing with smaller stores that carry a narrower range can exercise market power by pricing below cost for some of their products. Below-cost pricing arises as an exploitative device rather than a predatory device (e.g., Chen and Rey, 2012). Unlike standard textbook models, we...

Laura Grigolon, Mathias Reynaert et Frank Verboven

n° 17-836, août 2017

To what extent do car buyers undervalue future fuel costs, and what does this imply for the effectiveness and welfare impact of alternative tax policies' To address both questions, we show it is crucial to account for consumer heterogeneity in mileage and other dimensions. We use detailed product-...