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Georg Nöldeke et Jorge Peña
vol. 99, septembre 2016, p. 71–81
André Blais, Martial Foucault, Simon Labbé St-Vincent, Jean-François Laslier, Nicolas Sauger et Karine Van Der Straeten
sous la direction de André Blais, Jean-François Laslier et Karine Van Der Straeten, Springer, chapitre 4, septembre 2016, p. 287–302
The chapter examines perceptions of candidate viability in a series of voting experiments conducted in Lille, Montreal, and Paris. We show that: participants in these experiments are able to distinguish viable and non-viable candidates; these perceptions become clearer over time; and they affect...
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier et Karine Van Der Straeten
sous la direction de André Blais, Jean-François Laslier et Karine Van Der Straeten, Springer, chapitre 3, septembre 2016, p. 215–236
The chapter studies individual-level strategic voting in run-off elections and makes two contributions. On the theoretical side, we propose a typology of the strategic situations a voter can face and of the kind of reasoning that the rational voter should perform in such situations. On the...
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier et Karine Van Der Straeten (éds.)
Springer, septembre 2016
This book contains 16 contributions that were presented in the workshop ’Voting experiments’, organized by the editors in Montreal on March 28-29, 2014. This workshop, where presentations were selected after an open call for papers, was organized within the framework of the Making Electoral...
Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram et Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
n° 16-686, août 2016
This paper studies the pricing of delivery services and its impact on the market structure in the-commerce sector. We focus on one of the ongoing trends, namely the development of marketplaces. A retailer may not just sell its own products; but also provide a marketplace for other sellers, offering...
Daniel L. Chen et Jasmin Sethi
n° 16-687, août 2016
Sexual harassment is perceived to be a major impediment to female labor force participation. We use the random assignment of U.S. federal judges setting geographically-local precedent, and the fact that judges’ biographies predict decisions in sexual harassment cases, to document the causal impact...
Bruno Biais, Florian Heider et Marie Hoerova
vol. 71, n° 4, août 2016, p. 1669–1698
Derivatives activity, motivated by risk-sharing, can breed risk taking. Bad news about the risk of the asset underlying the derivative increases the expected liability of a protection seller and undermines her risk prevention incentives. This limits risk-sharing, and may create endogenous...
Alexandre Cornière (de)
vol. 8, n° 3, août 2016, p. 156–188
Search engines enable advertisers to target consumers based on the query they have entered. In a framework in which consumers search sequentially after having entered a query, I show that targeting reduces search costs, improves matches and intensifies price competition. However, a profit-...
Daniel L. Chen, Tobias J. Moskowitz et Kelly Shue
vol. 131, n° 3, août 2016, p. 1181–1241
We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court decisions, loan application reviews, and Major League Baseball umpire pitch calls. The evidence is...
James K. Hammitt et Lisa A. Robinson
vol. 25, n° 8, août 2016, p. 1039–1052
The value of mortality risk reductions, conventionally expressed as the value per statistical life (VSL), is an important determinant of the net benefits of many government policies. U.S. regulators currently rely primarily on studies of fatal injuries, raising questions about whether different...
