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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...
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...
Antoine Doury, Samuel Somot et Sébastien Gadat
n° 24-1497, janvier 2024
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...
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer et Firouz Gahvari
vol. 126, n° 1, janvier 2024, p. 98–126
We study optimal income taxation in a two-group framework where the private cost of misreporting income is positively correlated with productivity. We show that, if high-wage types always reveal their income truthfully, letting low-wage types cheat would lead to Pareto-superior outcomes regardless...
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...
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...
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...
Jose Aurazo et Farid Gasmi
n° 24-1572, janvier 2024
Digitization of retail payments has facilitated the promotion of financial inclusion recognized to stimulate growth, alleviate poverty, and address gender disparities in the financial sector. This paper closely examines four prominent payment solutions in the developing world, which are M-Pesa in...
Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen et Arianna Ornaghi
vol. 16, n° 1, janvier 2024, p. 314–350
Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in U.S. Circuit Courts? In this paper, we propose a judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender-stereotyped language in the judge’s authored opinions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of judges to cases and...
