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Michel Le Breton
n° 16-619, février 2016
In this note, we formulate a condition describing the vulnerability of a social choice function to a specific kind of strategic behavior and show that two well known classes of choice functions suffer from it.
Andrés Salamanca Lugo
n° 16-620, février 2016, révision avril 2017
A bargaining solution concept generalizing the Harsanyi NTU value is defined for cooperative games with incomplete information. Our definition of a cooperative solution implies that all coalitional threats are equitable when players make interpersonal utility comparisons in terms of some virtual...
Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley, Vincent Merlin et Nicolas Sauger
n° 16-621, février 2016, révision janvier 2017
A partir du cas du changement du mode d'élection des conseillers départementaux français, cet article propose un cadre analytique d'évaluation des réformes de système électoral. Dans une perspective d'ingénierie électorale, quatre indices principaux sont utilisés, notamment les indices de...
Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley et Hatem Smaoui
n° 16-622, février 2016
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote under the majority rule for a class of random electorate models encompassing the celebrated Impartial Culture (IC) and Impartial Anonymous Culture (IAC) models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation...
Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez-Torres et Josepa Miquel-Florensa
n° 16-623, février 2016, révision septembre 2018
How does informal risk sharing affect incentives to avoid risk? While moral hazard is expected under formal insurance, theory suggests that the incentive effects of informal risk sharing are ambiguous: internalization of the external effects of transfers on others may reduce or enhance incentives...
Jean-Pierre Amigues et Michel Moreaux
n° 16-624, février 2016, révision décembre 2018
We study an economy producing energy services from a polluting fossil fuel and a carbon free renewable resource under a constraint on the admissible atmospheric carbon concentration, equivalently under a constraint on the admissible temperature. The transformation rates of natural primary resources...
n° 16-626, février 2016
To prevent climate change, three options are currently considered: improve the energy conversion efficiency of primary energy sources, develop carbon free alternatives to polluting fossil fuels, abate potential emissions before they are released inside the atmosphere. We study the optimal mix and...
n° 16-625, février 2016
The global economy produces energy from two sources: a polluting nonrenewable resource and a renewable resource. Transforming crude energy into ready-to-use energy services requires costly processes and more efficient energy transformation rates are more costly to achieve. Renewable energy is in...
José-Raimundo Carvalho et Thierry Magnac
n° 16-627, février 2016
In this document, we review the main characteristics of the survey undertaken in Ceara in 2014 among students of public and private high schools and regarding their characteristics and behavior relative to the choice of college and undergraduate degrees.
James K. Hammitt, Daniel Herrera-Araujo et Christoph Rheinberger
n° 16-628, février 2016
We present an integrated valuation model for diseases that pose some chance of death. The model extends the standard one-period value-of-statistical-life model to three health prospects: healthy, ill, and dead. We derive willingness-to-pay values for preven- tion eorts that reduce a disease’s...
