Jump to navigation
Romain Espinosa, and Nicolas Treich
2025, forthcoming
In this paper, we empirically investigate fairness judgments about animals. We design a survey that addresses major challenges associated with the inclusion of animal welfare in public decisions. Collecting data from a representative sample of the French population (N=1,526), we document the views...
Matthew Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt, Eugénie de Laubier, and Nicolas Treich
Benjamin Ouvrard, Arnaud Reynaud, and Murudaiah Sivamurthy
Using an experimental setting inspired by the empirical social choice literature, we analyze how Indian farmers define fair water allocation. We investigate the choices of 240 Indian farmers who — as a neutral third-party — are asked to make water allocation decisions in situations that differ,...
Léo Fitouchi, Manvir Singh, Jean-Baptiste André, and Nicolas Baumard
2025
Why do humans believe in moralizing gods? Leading accounts argue that these beliefs evolved because they help societies grow and promote group cooperation. Yet recent evidence suggests that beliefs in moralizing gods are not limited to large societies and might not have strong effects on...
Christian Gollier
Because of risk aversion, any sensible investment valuation system should value less projects that contribute more to the aggregate risk. In theory, this is done by adjusting discount rates to consumption betas. But in reality, most public institutions use a dis-count rate that is rather...
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed
vol. 69, n. 4, 2025, pp. 731–760
Autocratic elections are often marred with systematic intimidation and violence towards voters and candidates. When do authoritarian regimes resort to violent electoral strategies? I argue that electoral violence acts as a risk-management strategy in competitive authoritarian elections where: (a)...
Michele Bisceglia, and Salvatore Piccolo
We study a two-period industry where firms are run by agents privately informed about their (persistent) costs, and principals can only use spot contracts. We characterize novel semi-separating equilibria where principals randomize in one or both periods. These equilibria have the following...
Mengchen Dong, Jane Conway, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, and Iyad Rahwan
Farid Gasmi, Laura Recuero Virto, and Denis Couvet
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Olivier de Mouzon, Valérie Orozco, Lola Pedrini, and Marine Spiteri
