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Farid Gasmi et Imène Laourari
vol. 127, juin 2017, p. 1029–1058
Algeria is strongly dependent on oil exports revenues to fuel its economy and following the 1986 oil counter-shock this country has experienced a persistent decline of its manufacturing sector. Although it has benefited from high oil prices over the last decades and implemented a myriad of economic...
Caio Almeida, Kim Ardison, René Garcia et Jose Vicente
vol. 15, n° 3, juin 2017, p. 333–376
Helmuth Cremer et Firouz Gahvari
vol. 49, juin 2017, p. 11–35
This paper restores many of the Ramsey tax/pricing lessons perceived as outdated in the optimal tax literature following the Atkinson and Stiglitz (J Public Econ 6:55–75, 1976) framework wherein differential commodity taxes are considered to be redundant. The key to our findings is the...
Frédéric Cherbonnier, Marc Ivaldi, Catherine Muller-Vibes et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 16, n° 2, juin 2017, p. 203–238
This paper is aimed at evaluating the net gains and trade-offs at stake in implementing the competition of the rail mode in the long distance passenger market either by means of franchise or by an open access mechanism. We simulate the outcomes of competition in and for the market using a...
Marc Henry, Koen Jochmans et Bernard Salanié
juin 2017, p. 610–635
Shivam Verma, Adithya Parthasarathy et Daniel L. Chen
juin 2017, p. 253 – 256
We employ machine learning techniques to identify common characteristics and features from cases in the US courts of appeals that contribute in determining dissent. Our models were able to predict vote alignment with an average F1 score of 73%, and our results show that the length of the opinion,...
Tim Lee et Yongseok Shin
n° 17-800, mai 2017
We analyze the effect of technological change in a novel framework that integrates an economy's skill distribution with its occupational and industrial structure. Individuals become managers or workers based on their managerial vs. worker skills, and workers further sort into a continuum of tasks (...
Simone Cuiabano, João Carlos Nicolini de Moraes et Lucas Pinha
n° 17-801, mai 2017
A key issue in the analysis of mergers in antitrust is the relevant market definition. The application of time-series techniques can be useful in this process, since only prices are required for the analysis, allowing for relatively rapid estimates. The objective of this work is to make an overview...
Andrii Babii et Jean-Pierre Florens
n° 17-802, mai 2017, révision janvier 2020
It is common to assume in empirical research that observables and unobservables are additively separable, especially, when the former are endogenous. This is done because it is widely recognized that identification and estimation challenges arise when interactions between the two are allowed for....
Andrii Babii
n° 17-803, mai 2017
This paper provides novel methods for inference in a very general class of ill-posed models in econometrics, encompassing the nonparametric instrumental regression, different functional regressions, and the deconvolution. I focus on uniform confidence sets for the parameter of interest estimated...
