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Marijn Keijzer, Michael Mas et Andreas Flache
vol. 27, n° 1, janvier 2024, 28 pages
We formally introduce and empirically test alternative micro-foundations of social influence in the context of communication on social media. To this end, we first propose a general theoretical framework allowing us to represent by different combinations of model parameters of influence-response...
Romain Espinosa et Nicolas Treich
n° 24-1503, janvier 2024
We provide a non-anthropocentric rationale for implementing a levy on meat consumption due to animal-welfare considerations. It operates as a Pigouvian tax and addresses externalities on farmed animals. Under total utilitarianism, the levy is a subsidy when an animal’s life is worth living, and a...
David Martimort et Jérôme Pouyet
n° 24-1501, janvier 2024, révision juillet 2024
Pay-TV firms compete both downstream to attract viewers and upstream to acquire broadcasting rights. Because profits inherited from downstream competition satisfy a convexity property, allocating rights to the dominant firm maximizes the industry profit. Such an exclusive allocation of rights...
Olivier Faugeras
n° 24-1500, janvier 2024, révision mai 2025
Compositional Data (CoDa) is usually viewed as data on the simplex and is studied via a log-ratio analysis, following the classical work of Aitchison [2]. We propose to bring to the fore an alternative view of CoDa as a stick breaking process, an approach which originates from Bayesian...
Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, Stefan Lamp et Tsvetan Tsvetanov
vol. 43, n° 5, janvier 2024, p. 1132 – 1148
Intensive marketing campaigns can be used to increase awareness, consideration, purchase, and word of mouth (WOM) of prosocial products. With expanded interest and belief in how social norms and spillovers might be leveraged to combat climate change, it is critical to understand how campaigns...
David Rhys Bernard, Gharad Bryan, Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, Jonathan De Quidt, Jasmin Fliegner et Roland Rathelot
n° 24-1498, janvier 2024
The use of observational methods remains common in program evaluation. How much should we trust these studies, which lack clear identifying variation? We propose adjusting confidence intervals to incorporate the uncertainty due to observational bias. Using data from 44 development RCTs with...
Antoine Doury, Samuel Somot et Sébastien Gadat
n° 24-1497, janvier 2024
Rafael Berriel, Eugenia Gonzalez-Aguado, Patrick Kehoe et Elena Pastorino
vol. 141, janvier 2024, p. 157–177
When is a fiscal union appropriate for a monetary union? In a monetary union without fiscal externalities, when local fiscal authorities have an informational advantage over a central fiscal authority in terms of their knowledge of countries’ preferences for government spending, a decentralized...
Carlos Navarrete, Mariana Macedo, Rachael Colley, Jingling Zhang, Nicole Ferrada, Maria Eduarda Mello, Rodrigo Lira, Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Umberto Grandi, Jérôme Lang et César Hidalgo
vol. 8, n° 1, janvier 2024, p. 137–148
Digital technologies can augment civic participation by facilitating the expression of detailed political preferences. Yet, digital participation efforts often rely on methods optimized for elections involving a few candidates. Here we present data collected in an online experiment where...
Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan et Azim Shariff
vol. 75, janvier 2024, p. 653–675
Moral psychology was shaped around three categories of agents and patients: humans, other animals, and supernatural beings. Rapid progress in artificial intelligence has introduced a fourth category for our moral psychology to deal with: intelligent machines. Machines can perform as moral agents,...
