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Sandro Shelegia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics;CEPR)

Toulouse, 2023

Levin Brinkmann, Fabian Baumann, Maxime Derex, Jean-François Bonnefon, Thomas F. Müller, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Agnieszka Czaplicka, Alberto Acerbi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joseph Henrich, Joel Z. Leibo, Richard McElreath, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jonathan Stray et Iyad Rahwan

vol. 7, novembre 2023, p. 1855–1868

The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of ‘machine culture’, culture mediated or generated by machines. We argue that intelligent machines simultaneously...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Alice Mesnard et Tiffanie Perrault

n° 160, novembre 2023

We study how temporary visa schemes can be designed to drive smugglers out of business while meeting labor market needs in host countries. After discussing their compatibility with a large range of policy objectives, we show how combining internal and external controls with a regulated market for...

Le Thanh Ha, Manh-Hung Nguyen et Chon Van Le

vol. 55, novembre 2023, p. 117061–117081

In this study, we use a time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) in conjunction with the extended joint connectedness approach to examine the influences of the economic globalization measured by foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as trade openness (TO), on renewable and non-...

Tristan Earle Grupp, Prakash Mishra, Mathias Reynaert et Arthur Van Benthem

n° 23-1490, novembre 2023, révision juin 2024

The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. We use the staggered introduction of protected areas between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of protection on vegetation...

Yassine Lefouili et Leonardo Madio

n° 23-1491, novembre 2023, révision septembre 2024

This paper reviews recent studies on the impact of changes in market structure on investments. First, we examine the relationship between competition intensity and investments from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Second, we discuss the impact of mergers among competing incumbents on...

Victor Gay, Paula Gobbi et Marc Goni

n° 18607, novembre 2023

We test Le Play's (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to France’s early fertility decline. In 1793, a series of inheritance reforms abolished local inheritance practices, imposing equal partition of assets among all children. We develop a theoretical framework that predicts a...

Péter Bayer

n° 23-1487, novembre 2023

This paper studies the evolution of behavior governing strategic network formation. I first propose a general framework of evolutionary selection in non-cooperative games played in heterogeneous groups under assortative matching. I show that evolution selects strate-gies that (i) execute altruistic...

Anastasios Dosis et Wilfried Sand-Zantman

vol. 39, n° 3, novembre 2023, p. 615–641

We study the effects of property rights over the use of data on market outcomes. To do so, we consider a model in which a monopolistic firm offers a service to a set of heterogeneous users. The use of the service generates valuable data, but data monetization entails a privacy cost for users. A...

Benjamin C. Trumble, Herman Pontzer, Jonathan Stieglitz, Daniel Cummings, Brian Wood, Melissa Emery Thompson, David Raichlen, Bret A. Beheim, Gandhi Yetish, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven

vol. 35, n° 11, novembre 2023

Testosterone plays a role in mediating energetic trade-offs between growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Investments in a high testosterone phenotype trade-off against other functions, particularly survival-enhancing immune function and cellular repair; thus only individuals in good condition can...