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Ayden Higgins et Koen Jochmans
2025, à paraître
We consider the problem of identifying the parameters of a time-homogeneous bivariate Markov chain when only one of the two variables is observable. We show that, subject to conditions that we spell out, the transition kernel and the distribution of the initial condition are uniquely recoverable (...
Alexandre de Cornière et Greg Taylor
Daniel L. Chen, Vardges Levonyan et Susan Yeh
Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer et Daniel L. Chen
We provide experimental evidence of teacher-to-student transmission of gender attitudes in Pakistan. We randomly show teachers a pro-women’s rights visual narrative. Treated teachers increase their and students’ support for women’s rights, unbiasedness in gender IATs, and willingness to petition...
Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen et Suresh Naidu
Manh-Hung Nguyen, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Son Nghiem et Lan Anh Nguyen
Marc Ivaldi, Nicolas Petit et Selçukhan Unekbas
vol. 86-2, 2025, à paraître
The killer acquisitions theory states that established firms buy new businesses to pre-empt future competition, particularly in the pharmaceutical and digital industries. The theory fuels demand to make merger policy more restrictive. • But is the theory of killer acquisitions supported by...
Margot Dazey et Victor Gay
How is support for right-wing populist parties affected by exposure to Muslim visibility? Using an original database on French mosques, this article analyzes the relationship between the presence of mosques and support for the Front National at the polling station level in the late 2000s. It finds...
Marc Bourreau, Bruno Jullien et Yassine Lefouili
We study the impact of horizontal mergers on the incentives of merging firms to invest in incremental innovation. We provide a decomposition of this impact that clarifies the various forces at work and the differences between demand-enhancing and cost-reducing innovation. Moreover, we derive...
Felix Dammann, Néofytos Rodosthenous et Stéphane Villeneuve
We introduce a non-zero-sum game between a government and a legislative body to study the optimal level of debt. Each player, with different time preferences, can intervene on the stochastic dynamics of the debt-to-GDP ratio via singular stochastic controls, in view of minimiz-ing non-continuously...
