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Jacques Crémer, Amelia Fletcher, Gregory Crawford et David Dinielli
vol. 40, n° 3, octobre 2023, p. 875–914
Vincent Rebeyrol
vol. 133, n° 655, octobre 2023, p. 2807–2827
This paper shows that non-tariff measures may fully respect the non-discrimination principle of the World Trade Organisation and still act as a protectionist device. Non-tariff measures that raise costs of all firms induce some exit, reallocating market shares towards the most efficient firms. The...
Emmanuel Thibault et Grégory Ponthieres
n° 23-1474, octobre 2023
The Preston Curve - the increasing relation between income per capita and life expectancy - cannot be observed in countries where old-age dependency is widespread (that is, where long-term care (LTC) spending per capita is high). The absence of the Preston Curve in countries with high old-age...
Thomas Bassanetti, Stéphane Cezera, Maxime Delacroix, Ramon Escobedo, Adrien Blanchet, Clément Sire et Guy Théraulaz
vol. 120, n° 42 (e2307880120), octobre 2023
Stigmergy is a generic coordination mechanism widely used by animal societies, in which traces left by individuals in a medium guide and stimulate their subsequent actions. In humans, new forms of stigmergic processes have emerged through the development of online services that extensively use the...
Hervé Guyomard, Louis-Georges Soler, Cécile Détang-Dessendre et Vincent Réquillart
vol. 4, n° 358, octobre 2023
The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: reducing...
Abhit Bhandari, Horacio Larreguy et John Marshall
vol. 67, n° 4, octobre 2023, p. 1040–1066
Political accountability may be constrained by the reach and relevance of information campaigns in developing democracies and—upon receiving information—voters' ability and will to hold politicians accountable. To illuminate voter‐level constraints and information relevance absent dissemination...
Ilaria Pretelli, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Bakar Makame Khamis et Richard McElreath
vol. 290, n° 2011, octobre 2023
Childhood is a period of life unique to humans. Childhood may have evolved through the need to acquire knowledge and subsistence skills. In an effort to understand the functional significance of childhood, previous research examined increases with age in returns to foraging across food resources....
Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Pierre-Carl Michaud et Marie-Louise Leroux
n° 23-1479, octobre 2023
Cet article étudie certaines des raisons qui pourraient expliquer la faiblesse du marché de l’assurance dépendance au Québec et en Ontario. En utilisant des données d’enquête de 2016, nous expliquons que les biais de perception des risques démographiques (probabilité de survie et de dépendance) ne...
Stefan Ambec, Claude Crampes et Jean Tirole
n° 23-1484, octobre 2023
La lutte contre le réchauffement climatique passe par l’électrification des usages de l’énergie et l’abandon des sources de production carbonées. Il est donc nécessaire que la production et la fourniture d’énergie électrique soient réalisées en respectant des contraintes d’efficacité de court terme...
Jean-Paul Azam
n° 23-1483, octobre 2023, révision novembre 2024
This paper presents an interpretation of the main arguments used in Peter Olivi’s Treatise on Demons, published circa 1295 in Narbonne, Languedoc, within a rational-choice framework. This book has been widely praised as a landmark in the philosophical literature on personhood and personal freedom,...
