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Jean-François Bonnefon, Wim De Neys et Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 19, n° 8, août 2015, p. 421–422
Jean-François Bonnefon, Antimo Buonocore, Stefania De Vito et Sergio Della Sala
vol. 23, n° 6, août 2015, p. 796–805
Remembering the past and imagining the future both rely on complex mental imagery. We considered the possibility that constructing a future scene might tap a component of mental imagery that is not as critical for remembering past scenes. Whereas visual imagery plays an important role in...
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, François Poinas et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 164, n° 3, août 2015, p. 423–442
This paper studies the determinants of citizens’ preferences for different electoral systems. We use data collected through a large internet-based quasi-experiment carried out during the 2012 French presidential election where we invited subjects to cast a vote for real candidates according to four...
James K. Hammitt et Tuba Tuncel
vol. 51, n° 1, août 2015, p. 79–101
We assess individuals’ preferences for time paths of reductions in mortality risk yielding a life-expectancy gain of about one month. In a survey of more than 1000 French residents, we find substantial coherence and heterogeneity. We elicit pairwise preferences between three perturbations of age-...
E.J. Barbeau, Gladys Barragan et Maxime Cauchoix
vol. 75, août 2015, p. 390–401
Marco Bonomo, René Garcia, Nour Meddahi et Roméo Tédongap
vol. 187, n° 2, août 2015, p. 580–592
The relationship between conditional volatility and expected stock market returns, the so-called riskreturn trade-off, has been studied at high- and low-frequency. We propose an asset pricing model with generalized disappointment aversion preferences and short- and long-run volatility risks that...
Anne Ruiz-Gazen et Nathalie Villa
vol. 8, n° 4, août 2015, p. 232–239
Christoph Rheinberger et Nicolas Treich
18 août 2015
17 août 2015
Helmuth Cremer et Kerstin Roeder
n° 15-588, juillet 2015
This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as well as the “severity” of means testing (if any), a BI system could only emerge in the political...
