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A.C. Cardoso, Bruna Grizzetti, C. Liquete et Arnaud Reynaud
vol. 61, juillet 2016, p. 194–203
Ecosystem service concepts can offer a valuable approach for linking human and nature, and arguments for the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Despite an increasing interest in the topic, the application of these concepts for water resource management has been hampered by the lack...
Ingela Alger et Jörgen W. Weibull
vol. 98, juillet 2016, p. 56–67
What kind of preferences should one expect evolution to favor? We propose a definition of evolutionary stability of preferences in interactions in groups of arbitrary finite size. Groups are formed under random matching that may be assortative. Individuals' preferences are their private information...
Gary Biglaiser, Jacques Crémer et Gergely Dobos
vol. 47, juillet 2016, p. 62–87
We consider a simple two period model where consumers have different switching costs. Before the market opens, there was an incumbent who sold to all consumers. We identify the equilibrium both with Stackelberg and Bertrand competition and show how the presence of low switching cost consumers...
Matteo Bobba et Jérémie Gignoux
n° 16-662, juin 2016, révision août 2016
When potential beneficiaries share their knowledge and attitudes about a policy intervention, their decision to participate and the effectiveness of both the policy and its evaluation may be influenced. This matters most notably in integrated social policies with several components. We examine...
Fabien Prieur et Ingmar Schumacher
n° 16-663, juin 2016
In this article we investigate the role that internal and external conflict plays for optimal climate and immigration policy. Reviewing the empirical literature, we put forward five theses regarding the link between climate change, migration, and conflict. Based on these theses, we then develop a...
Ludwig Straub et Robert Ulbricht
n° 16-664, juin 2016, révision mars 2018
Many important statistics in macroeconomics and finance—such as cross-sectional dispersions, risk, volatility, or uncertainty—are second moments. In this paper, we explore a mechanism by which second moments naturally and endogenously fluctuate over time as nonlinear transformations of fundamentals...
Abdelaati Daouia, Jean-Pierre Florens et Léopold Simar
n° 16-665, juin 2016, révision juillet 2018
The aim of this paper is to construct a robust nonparametric estimator for the production frontier. The main tool is a concept of robust regression boundary defined as a special probability-weighted moment (PWM). We first study this problem under a regression model with one-sided errors where the...
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun et John Van Reenen
juin 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...
Bruno Jullien et Wilfried Sand-Zantman
collection « Rapport IDEI », n° 27, juin 2016
Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho et Marco Pariguana
n° 16-660, juin 2016, révision juillet 2024
This paper explores an information intervention designed and implemented within a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. Through a randomized experiment, we show that providing a subset of applicants with feedback about their academic perfor-mance can enhance sorting by skill across high...
