(Oct. 2019) 5 papers... in 5 minutes!
How to win an election?
Antoine Mandel* and Xavier Venel*
“Delivering the right message to the right person at the right time” is a common dictum among influencers in politics, lobbying, and marketing. The large increase in information about individual characteristics and social interactions brought about by the development of internet and online social networks has generated tremendous interest, among both practitioners and scientists, on the problem of identifying ...
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Spatial planning as a response to the climate crisis? Urban forms and sizes, and the carbon ‘carprint’ of households in France
Benjamin Carantino and Miren Lafourcade*
In the context of global warming, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by road transport are the object of increasing attention. This sector is currently the source of one quarter of all global CO2 emissions and it is responsible for fully half the growth of emissions since the signing of the 1990 Kyoto Protocol. In the European Union ...
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Organ exchange: how to resolve the double coincidence of wants without a market?
Mohammad Akbarpour, Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimer and Olivier Tercieux*
For some years, economists have proposed the organisation of exchanges that have long remained outside their field of analysis, in particular, those that cannot be the object of monetary transactions. To take an example, they have investigated environments in which patients with kidney disease have only incompatible living donors among their kith and kin and who therefore ...
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The effect of immigration on the housing market in France
Hippolyte d’Albis*, Ekrame Boubtane and Dramane Coulibaly
In metropolitan France (i.e., excluding the French overseas territories), two thirds of the migrant population live in three regions: Ile-de-France, Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. This geographic concentration of immigrants raises economic concerns, the first of which is the effect on the housing market. The dominant view is that international migration flows contribute to a housing crisis ...
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Quantifying sampling uncertainty when parameters are a priori known to satisfy certain restrictions
Philipp Ketz*
Sometimes economic theory implies a priori restrictions on certain model parameters. For example, the demand for an ordinary good will decrease given an increase in price, i.e., the coefficient on price, or the effect of price on demand, is a priori known to be negative. Another primary example is given by random coefficients models, where variance parameters are a priori known to be non-negative. When “taking the model to the data”, economists are not only ...
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* Members of the Paris School of Economics