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Platform Liability with Reputational Sanctions
This paper presents a framework where sellers, an online platform with monopoly power, and consumers transact. We study the interaction between the imposition of liability on the platform, the reputational sanctions exerted ...
Understanding the decline of interpersonal violence in the ancient middle east
How did human societies succeed in reducing interpersonal violence, a precondition to achieve security and prosperity? Given that homicide records are only available for the more recent period, much of human history remains ...
Optimal Disclosure Mandate in Supply Chains
We study a model in which a firm can acquire conclusive evidence about its supplier's social and environmental impacts. We identify the disclosure mandate that maximizes market information. A disclosure mandate determines ...
Political Accountability and Misinformation
What are the impacts of misinformation on political accountability? We address this question in a political career concerns framework with belief misspecification. In our model, an incumbent politician of an unknown ability ...
The Impact of the Genetic Risk for ADHD on Parental Beakdown
TDAH / ADHD - - Objectives: The literature shows a positive association between children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and parental divorce or marital conflicts. This is a significant health ...
An egalitarian approach for the adjudication of conflicting claims
This paper addresses the challenge of adjudicating conflicting claims by introducing a related reference point depending on the claims of agents. Egalitarian principles underpin many allocation rules, with the constrained ...
Taxation of Top Incomes and Tax Avoidance
“DP17970 Taxation of Top Incomes and Tax Avoidance”, CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 17970. https://cepr.org/publications/dp17970
The complexity of power indices in voting games with incompatible players
We study the complexity of computing the Banzhaf index in weighted voting games with cooperation restricted by an incompatibility graph. With an existing algorithm as a starting point, we use concepts from complexity theory ...
Gendered Effects of the Minimum Wage
Women are more likely to work in jobs with low hours than men. Low-hour jobs are associated with lower hourly wages and are more likely impacted by minimum wages that set a floor on hourly wages. We document that the first ...
Capital Misallocation and Economic Development in a Dynamic Open Economy
Some countries such as Canada, Italy, and Mexico have experienced a higher growth rate of capital per worker but a lower growth rate for GDP per worker when compared to the United States. This paper tries to reconcile this ...
The Data Economy and Polarization on Social Media
This paper studies the incentive of a social media platform (SMP) to increase polarization of its user network. I propose a two-group network model where the SMP earns revenue from user-data driven personalization. The ...
A General Equilibrium Model with Real Exchange Rate [WP]
I first write a partial equilibrium model “á la Rogoff” where there are relative prices of non-tradable goods in terms of prices of tradables goods. I find that the behaviour of the real exchange rate shows structural ...
The essential coalitions index in games with restricted cooperation
We propose a new power index, which we call the essential coalitions index. Within the field of power indices, the new measure extends the Deegan-Packel power index to situations with restricted cooperation. In general, ...
Parental education and the transition to master and PhD studies in Spain
In a context of full equality of opportunity, bachelor graduates’ decision to pursue further studies should not be affected by social origin. Using Spanish data, we analyze the role of parental background on the decision ...
Income-based affirmative action in college admissions [WP]
We study whether college admissions should implement quotas for lower-income applicants. We develop an overlapping-generations model and calibrate it to data from Brazil, where such a policy is widely implemented. In our ...
The Partition Lattice Value for Global Cooperative Games
We introduce a new value for global cooperative games that we call the Partition lattice value. A global cooperative game describes the overall utility that a set of agents generates depending on how they are organized in ...
Efficient copyright filters for online hosting platforms
This paper documents the existence of significant gender gaps in STEM occupations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico and estimates the aggregate costs associated with these gaps in Mexico. For Mexico we calibrate and ...
Project Choice and Social Image Concerns
Employees' desire to impress their employer may lead to suboptimal choices, such as performing tasks that are out of their depth. In this paper, we formalise this intuition in a principal-agent setting and we experimentally ...
Persuading crowds
A sequence of short-lived agents must choose which action to take under a fixed, but unknown, state of the world. Prior to the realization of the state, the long-lived principal designs and commits to a dynamic information ...
The long-term evolution of intergenerational transfers in Spain (1958-2012)
National Transfer Accounts (NTA) aim at disentangling how people produce, consume and save along the lifecycle, and how resources move among generations through the different resource allocation devices available (family, ...
