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Guillaume Carlier, Xavier Dupuis, Jean-Charles Rochet et John Thanassoulis
vol. 114, octobre 2024, p. 103025
We provide an algorithm for solving multidimensional screening problems which are intractable analytically. The algorithm is a primal–dual algorithm which alternates between optimizing the primal problem of the surplus extracted by the principal and the dual problem of the optimal assignment to...
Farid Gasmi, Dorgyles Kouakou, Paul Noumba Um et Pedro Rojas Milla
vol. 32, n° 4, octobre 2024, p. 1193–1243
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the social contract (SC) in MENA based on a simple model synthesizing three main characteristics of a SC linking governments and citizens: Participation, Protection, and Provision. Using this 3-P framework, we focus on the role of provision and...
Marcel Boyer
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, octobre 2024, 272 pages
Dans un contexte où les défis auxquels font face nos démocraties sociales et nos États providence menacent leur survie même, cet ouvrage propose une définition claire et une réorientation des rôles que peuvent jouer les secteurs public et privé. À l’aide de nouveaux modèles, l’auteur en revient...
Daniel L. Chen
vol. 169, n° 104835, octobre 2024
Politicians’ behavioral changes as an election nears have typically been attributed to the incentive effects of an election. I document that behavioral changes can occur even for unelected judges, using data from 1925 to 2002 on U.S. appellate judges, who are appointed for life. Exploiting monthly...
Pascal Heid, Kevin Remmy et Mathias Reynaert
n° 24-1589, octobre 2024
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) shifts the complementary market for passenger transport from oil to electricity. We develop and estimate a joint equilibrium model of the German electricity and automobile markets, emphasizing the timing of EV charging, as electricity generation costs and...
Maria Frech et Gerard Maideu-Morera
n° 24-1588, octobre 2024
Empirical evidence highlights women’s demand for flexible working hours as a crit-ical cause of the persistent gender disparities in the labor market. We propose a theory of how hidden demand for flexibility drives gendered employment dynamics. We de-velop a dynamic contracting model between an...
Michael Gurven, Yoann Buoro, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Katherine Sayre, Benjamin C. Trumble, Arild Pyhälä, Hillard Kaplan, Arild Angelsen, Jonathan Stieglitz et Victoria Reyes-García
vol. 10, n° 43, octobre 2024
Subjective well-being (SWB) is often described as being U-shaped over adulthood, declining to a midlife slump and then improving thereafter. Improved SWB in later adulthood has been considered a paradox given age-related declines in health and social losses. While SWB has mostly been studied in...
Laurence Gaume et Marion Desquilbet
vol. 4, n° e97, octobre 2024
The InsectChange database (van Klink et al. 2021) underlying the meta-analysis by van Klink et al. (2020a) compiles worldwide time series of the abundance and biomass of invertebrates reported as insects and arachnids, as well as ecological data likely to have influenced the observed trends. On the...
Milo Bianchi, David Martimort et Stéphane Straub
n° 24-1587, octobre 2024
We develop a model in which digital payment providers compete by setting fees and investing in the quality of their service. Consumers’ valuation of the service depends on the fraction of other consumers who joins the same network. Providers’ fees and quality investment, together with consumers’...
Amandine E. Visine, Adam H. Boyette, Yann Reische Ouamba, Sheina Lew-Levy, Mallika Sarma et Haneul Jang
vol. 14, n° 24893, octobre 2024
Across cultures, mothers balance childcare with other labour. Hunter-gatherer mothers face a daily choice of whether to take infants on foraging trips or leave them with caregivers in the settlement, as well as deciding with whom to forage. Yet, it remains unclear how infant presence affects...
