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Helmuth Cremer et Pierre Pestieau
vol. 21, n° 1, février 2009, p. 34–42
Xavier Freixas
25 février 2009
Nicolas Treich
n° 09-013, 17 février 2009
This paper considers a common n-agent symmetric rent-seeking game. It derives conditions so that risk-aversion and risk always decrease rent-seeking efforts. These conditions hold for any regular contest success function when risk-averse rent-seekers are also prudent. Under n = 2, prudence is a...
Paul Seabright
17 février 2009
Jean-Luc Ferre
Alban Thomas
13 février 2009
Julien Daubanes
n° 09-012, 12 février 2009
This article proposes a complementary explanation for why oil-rich economies have experienced a relative low GDP growth over the last decades: the proportion of taxes in the prices of petroleum products have been globally increasing in the last four decades, making oil revenues grow slower than...
André Grimaud et Gilles Lafforgue
12 février 2009
Jérôme Bigot et Sébastien Van Bellegem
n° 09-011, 11 février 2009
This paper proposes a new wavelet-based method for deconvolving a density. The estimator combines the ideas of nonlinear wavelet thresholding with periodised Meyer wavelets and estimation by information projection. It is guaranteed to be in the class of density functions, in particular it is...
Laurent Locurcio
9 février 2009
