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Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache et Yu Jianyu
n° 13-417, avril 2013
This paper investigates the collective choice of production standards by farmer and pro- cessor groups within a vertical food supply chain, taking into account their competition behaviors. In a context in which raising standards cannot translate into a direct price premium to consumers, we develop...
Christian Bontemps
n° 772, avril 2013, révision octobre 2014
In this paper, we develop moment-based tests for parametric discrete distributions. Momentbased test techniques are attractive as they provide easy-to-implement test statistics. We propose a general transformation that makes the moments of interest insensitive to the parameter estimation...
Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin et Suresh Sundaresan
avril 2013
Consumer auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices. Data from eBay shows that compositional shifts in the items being sold, or the sellers o§ering these items, cannot account for this evolution. Instead, the returns to...
Jean-François Bonnefon, Wim De Neys et Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 9, n° 2, avril 2013
Hormones can make us trust or distrust other people. Testosterone, in particular, appears to decrease feeling of trust. It had been assumed so far that testosterone made us less trusting because it made us better at spotting cheaters. This paper, however, suggests that testosterone makes us bluntly...
Marc Ivaldi
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 46, n° 2, avril 2013, p. 324–328
Holger Stichnoth et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 27, n° 2, avril 2013, p. 364–389
Jean-Paul Azam et Véronique Thelen
vol. 27, avril 2013, p. 165–192
Cet article présente quelques résultats de Azam et Thelen (2008, 2010, 2012) qui illustrent comment l’aide internationale est utilisée par les pays riches pour acheter les services des gouvernements bénéficiaires dans le but de protéger ou de promouvoir leurs intérêts économiques et politiques....
Patrick Rey et Michael Whinston
vol. 44, n° 1, avril 2013, p. 75–81
This article examines whether retailer bargaining power and upfront slotting allowances prevent small manufacturers (who have no bargaining power) from obtaining adequate distribution. In contrast to the findings of Marx and Shaffer (2007), who show that all equilibria involve limited distribution...
