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Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Céline Nauges, John Quiggin et Orion Sanders
n° 16-668, juillet 2016
The agricultural sector is commonly regarded as one of the most vulnerable to climate change. Current understanding of the impact of climate change on this sector relies on the underlying assumptions about farmers’ possible responses to weather variability, including changes in crop choice, input...
Estelle Koussoubé et Céline Nauges
n° 16-669, juillet 2016
The low level of modern inputs adoption by African farmers is considered to be a major impediment to food security and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. The government of Burkina Faso, following the example of a number of other countries in the region, launched a subsidy program in 2008 to...
Michael Gurven, Astrid Hopfensitz, Hillard Kaplan et Jonathan Stieglitz
n° 16-670, juillet 2016
Two disparate views of the sexual division of labour have dominated the 53 representation of intra-household resource allocations. These joint and separate interests 54 views differ in their interpretation of the relative roles of men and women, and make different 55 predictions about the extent to...
Thibault Laurent, Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley et Olivier de Mouzon
n° 16-671, juillet 2016, révision février 2018
Jean Tirole
n° 16-672, juillet 2016
In a number of interesting environments, dynamic screening involves positive selection: in contrast with Coasian dynamics, only the most motivated remain over time. The paper provides conditions under which the principal's commitment optimum is time consistent and uses this result to derive...
Vera Zaporozhets
n° 16-673, juillet 2016
We study a simple in?uence game, in which a lobby tries to manipulate the decision of a legislature via monetary offers to one or more members. We compute the minimum budget needed for the lobby to pass the bill and the distribution of this budget between the legislators. We also show the...
Daniel L. Chen, Tobias J. Moskowitz et Kelly Shue
n° 16-674, juillet 2016
Daniel L. Chen et John J. Horton
n° 16-675, juillet 2016
In some online labor markets, workers are paid by the task, choose what tasks to work on, and have little or no interaction with their (usually anonymous) buyer/employer. These markets look like true spot markets for tasks rather than markets for employment. Despite appearances, we find via a field...
Elie Gray et André Grimaud
n° 16-676, juillet 2016
This paper analyzes the link between the fact that fully endogenous growth models exhibit (or not) the non-desirable scale effects property and assumptions regarding the intensity of knowledge diffusion. In that respect, we extend a standard Schumpeterian growth model by introducing explicitly...
Fuhito Kojima et Takuro Yamashita
n° 16-677, juillet 2016
We study a double auction environment where buyers and sellers have interdependent valuations and multi-unit demand and supply. We propose a new mechanism which satisfies ex post incentive compatibility, individual rationality, feasibility, non-wastefulness, and no budget deficit. Moreover, this...
