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Roberta Dessi et Salvatore Piccolo
n° 09-059, juillet 2009, révision juin 2013
We develop a theory of the emergence of merchant guilds as an efficient mechanism to foster cooperation between merchants and rulers, building on the natural complementarity between merchants’ market trading and mutual monitoring. Unlike existing models, we focus on local merchant guilds, rather...
André Blais, Jean-François Laslier, Nicolas Sauger et Karine Van Der Straeten
n° 09-065, juillet 2009
We report on laboratory experiments on voting. In a setting where subjects have single-peaked preferences we find that the rational choice theory provides very good predictions of actual individual behavior in one-round and approval voting elections, but fares poorly in explaining vote choice under...
Bruno Jullien et In-Uck Park
n° 09-086, juillet 2009, révision 29 janvier 2014
We show that sellers may earn reputation for their \ability" to deliver high quality goods on average by honestly announcing the realised quality of items for sale every period. As the expected revenue stream from continuing with honest communication increases with their ability, high ability...
Jean-Pierre Florens et Erwann Sbaï
n° 10-166, juillet 2009
This paper studies identification for a broad class of empirical games in a general functional setting. Global identification results are known for some specific models, for instance in some standard auction models. We use functional formulations to obtain general criteria for local identification...
David Martimort, Jean-Christophe Poudou et Wilfried Sand-Zantman
n° 09-058, juillet 2009
David Bardey, David Bardey, Antoine Bommier et Bruno Jullien
n° 09-026, juillet 2009
Christian Gollier
n° 09-062, juillet 2009
Bruno Jullien, Jérôme Pouyet et Wilfried Sand-Zantman
n° 09-072, juillet 2009
Céline Bonnet, Pierre Dubois et Sofia B. Villas-Boas
n° 09-067, juillet 2009
André Grimaud, Gilles Lafforgue et Bertrand Magné
n° 09-063, juillet 2009
