Upcoming seminars
Fighting Tax Evasion in the Gig Economy: Evidence from French Administrative Data
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En collaboration avec Matthieu Chtioui.
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Safety first: gender differences in screening on an online platform
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Abstract: We investigate gender differences in economic outcomes on the largest carpooling platform in Europe, combining correspondence studies, scraped platform data and survey experiments. We find that although female drivers are strongly preferred by passengers, they do not earn higher revenues. We reconcile this paradox by showing that female drivers screen out passengers more than men do, driven by differences in perceived risk and tolerance for potentially unsafe passengers.
Federal Guidance and University Responses to Sexual Violence in the U.S.
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Abstract : Victims of sexual violence rarely report these crimes to the police. In the U.S., universities have an obligation to provide education free from sex discrimination, including sexual violence, under Title IX. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education released updated guidance on Title IX compliance, which emphasized universities’ responsibility to investigate sexual violence cases in a fair and timely manner. I leverage this national shock to estimate the effect of increased salience and oversight on reports of sexual violence in annual crime data collected by all U.S. universities. In a difference-in-differences framework, I compare sexual violence crime rates to other violent crime rates before and after 2011 and find that there are 0.62 additional sexual violence reports per 1,000 students enrolled, an 87 percent increase relative to the mean of sexual violence reports. Survey evidence suggests that information provision to students is responsible for the reporting increase, while novel data on historical Title IX policies provides no evidence that mandatory reporting policies play an important role.
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Political Influence During Childhood
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Abstract: We study the role of office-holders in the formation of political preferences during childhood. Leveraging data on 200 million registered voters and a regression discontinuity design based on gubernatorial elections, we show that U.S. state governors systematically shift voters’ partisan alignment toward their own party. The effects are concentrated among individuals who were between the ages of 6 and 17 during a governor’s tenure. Each additional year of exposure to a Republican governor during childhood increases the probability of Republican registration in adulthood by 0.45 percentage points or about 1.8 percentage points over a four-year term. We further document lasting impacts on primary participation and survey-based attitudes. The estimates are stronger for governors who are more visible and popular, and in settings where they enjoy greater discretionary authority, especially over education policy.
Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt? How Jurors Translate Uncertainty into Verdicts
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with Vincent Théroude
Abstract: How jurors form reasonable doubt under uncertainty is investigated in a two-stage online experiment that separates wrongdoing from evidence evaluation. First, participants earn income and may steal from a matched victim; theft can also occur mechanically with 50% probability, creating uncertainty about intent. Second, independent jurors observe an informative but imperfect signal (with known precision). Jurors’ priors, posteriors, and verdicts are elicited to estimate individual conviction thresholds—an operational measure of reasonable doubt. Willingness to pay is also elicited to implement majority decisions and to correct wrongful verdicts. Variation in thresholds and justice preferences is linked to demographics, preference parameters, and probabilistic reasoning.
Educate and Punish: The effects of placing young offenders in Closed Educational Centres
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Abstract : Building on multiple administrative judicial French databases, this paper aims to quantitatively estimate the effects of placing juvenile delinquents in Closed Educational Centers (CEFs). Presented as an alternative to incarceration when other forms of open placement have failed, CEFs aim to create a temporary break for minors from their usual environment by involving them in intensive educational and professional activities and providing enhanced, personalised supervision. Leveraging the progressive deployment of CEFs across French departments, I examine the effects of this placement on the reiteration of delinquent acts. In the longer run, this paper also aims to estimate the effects on (i) return to education and training, (ii) employment and (iii) health outcomes, as well as to explore mechanisms that may explain observed disparities, including peer effects.
Overlapping scopes of practice and competition between health professional groups. The case of sexual and reproductive primary care in France
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Abstract : This paper evaluates how the medical activity of gynaecologists is affected when facing increased competition from midwives in the context of France. In a context of increasingly overlapping scopes of practices, we identify the change in the volume and composition of gynaecologists activity following the entry of a midwife in their catchment area. We exploit rich exhaustive administrative data from the French national health insurance (Système National des Données de Santé) over the period 2016-2019. We implement a staggered difference-in-difference approach and consider the heterogeneity of responses depending on the price convention of gyanecologists. In our current results, we find that the entry of a midwife leads gynaecologists to increase their activity, whatever their price convention. We find no clear effect on the composition of the medical activity.
Rule-following as a Signal of Trustworthiness
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Abstract: A large body of research shows that trust is highly responsive to signals of a partner’s trustworthiness, yet rule-following has received little attention. We experimentally examine the signaling role of compliance by combining a rule-following task with a trust game, allowing us to study both the production and perception of the signal. We find that rule-followers are trusted more and reciprocate more. While rule-following increases slightly with observability, this effect does not appear to be driven by strategic motives, nor do observers suspect such motives. These results suggest that rule compliance functions as a credible signal in social exchange.
Estimating Dark Figures of Crime
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Abstract: The dark figure of crime confounds the true prevalence with enforcement, since detection and crime are observed only in conjunction. We introduce a novel Maximum Likelihood estimator that simultaneously estimates probabilities of two latent outcomes — crime and enforcement — using instrumental variables. Identification relies on exogenous instruments excluded from shifting the probability of crime or enforcement occurring to disentangle the selective sample from its population. In a corporate cybercrime application in two Swiss cantons, the reported monthly rates (0.03% and 0.01%) severely mask the true prevalence; estimated rates are 2.4% to 17.9%, with dark rates exceeding 99%.
Price Discrimination Under Asymmetric Access to Consumer Data
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Résumé: : A platform-affiliated retailer competes in prices with third-party sellers over two periods. After the first period, the affiliate has access to market-wide purchase data and an informational advantage. Third-party sellers either do not obtain data (exclusive data use) or obtain only data on their own past customers (shared data use). Data access underpins price discrimination by consideration in the second period. With exclusive data use, price discrimination benefits all retailers compared to uniform pricing. The affiliate benefits more than third-party sellers. However, third-party sellers’ lack of data limits the extent to which the affiliate can use its superior information. With shared data use, all retailers benefit equally from price discrimination compared to uniform pricing. Mandatory sharing of past customer data does not harm the affiliate, although it reduces its informational advantage, and benefits third-party sellers. However, while leveling the playing field on the supply side, it harms consumers
Entertainment or Slant? Media Demand and the Effects of Channel Closures in France
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Avec Camille Urvoy
Résumé: How do individuals decide what media to consume? This paper addresses this question by exploiting the 2025 discontinuation of two French television channels, C8 and NRJ12, whose licenses were not renewed by the regulator. Using a four-wave panel survey of 2,500 respondents—including regular viewers of the discontinued channels—we analyze how audiences reallocated their attention once these options disappeared. A difference-in-differences design distinguishes between former viewers of pure entertainment content and viewers of infotainment (through exposure to the show Touche pas à Mon Poste). Despite the reduction in available channels, overall TV consumption remained stable. Entertainment-only viewers concentrated on channels they already watched, while infotainment viewers expanded their viewing to new outlets—mostly entertainment and some generalist channels—without shifting toward political news. These patterns suggest that bundling political content with entertainment extends media reach in ways that news-only alternatives cannot. Finally, we document heterogeneous effects on political knowledge and news knowledge among infotainment viewers.
Consumer welfare and marketing cues: experimental evidence and structural modeling
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Abstract : Retailers often use salient visual elements, or marketing cues, to promote certain choices. Their impact on consumer welfare is hard to assess when products are complex and consumers differ in preferences and biases. This paper proposes two approaches to inform regulatory action from limited data. First, a choice experiment with induced values, varying visual elements within- and attribution rules between-subject. It measures welfare effects in monetary terms, depending on how closely attribution rules match consumer preferences. Some policy insights emerge even when preferences and attribution rules are unknown. Second, a structural model of consumer decision-making based on rational attention, where choices and welfare depend on information costs, beliefs about the cue, and attribution rules. Its calibration is less data-demanding than a full preference estimation, hence applicable in A/B testing. I validate the model with experimental data, and conversely, I identify necessary conditions for an externally valid experiment from the model.
Educate and Punish: The effects of placing young offenders in Closed Educational Centres
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Abstract :Building on multiple administrative judicial French databases, this paper aims to quantitatively estimate the effects of placing juvenile delinquents in Closed Educational Centers (CEFs). Presented as an alternative to incarceration when other forms of open placement have failed, CEFs aim to create a temporary break for minors from their usual environment by involving them in intensive educational and professional activities and providing enhanced, personalised supervision. Leveraging the progressive deployment of CEFs across French departments, I examine the effects of this placement on the reiteration of delinquent acts. In the longer run, this paper also aims to estimate the effects on (i) return to education and training, (ii) employment and (iii) health outcomes, as well as to explore mechanisms that may explain observed disparities, including peer effects.
Exploring Digital Sovereignty Through Data Flows: Empirical Evidence from the Backbone of the Internet
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Abstract: This study investigates the achievability of digital sovereignty within the European Union by examining website data flows, mainly focusing on non-personal data. Amid growing concerns over data governance and the resurgence of digital sovereignty as a central theme in EU policies, this research uniquely addresses firms' data storage decisions and their implications for EU users. Utilizing an original dataset of the most visited websites in France, this paper analyzes data location preferences across various sectors, revealing a complex interplay between privacy regulations, firm size, sector-specific tendencies, and the underlying internet infrastructure. The findings suggest that firms prioritize data storage in countries with strong privacy regulations and tend to locate data closer to consumers to minimize latency. However, variations are observed based on sector-specific needs and firm size, with larger and tech-oriented firms showing less sensitivity to distance. The study also highlights the significant role of the Internet's backbone infrastructure in shaping data storage strategies, pointing to potential challenges in aligning with digital sovereignty goals.
Externalities and the erosion of trust
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with G. Daniele, F. Passarelli, W. Sas & L. Windsteiger
Abstract : We present a theory explaining how divergent opinions about the regulation of an externality problem can lead to distrust of both political institutions and other people. Those who are more concerned about the externality distrust the government because they perceive the rule as too lenient. Those who are less concerned blame the government because they have to comply with a rule they consider useless. In addition, the rule shapes individuals’ expectations of civic behavior in society. Therefore, regulation can lead to disappointment and interpersonal distrust when others do not follow the rules. Those who are more concerned also value civic behavior more, so they lose even more trust in others. Our survey experiment in four European countries supports these patterns in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Give more, receive more? Gender and cooperativeness among politicians
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Avec P Maarek.
Abstract : This paper investigates gender-based differences in cooperativeness among French parliamentarians by analyzing legislative behaviors, such as cosponsorship and voting patterns. Using a comprehensive dataset covering all bills and amendments authored in France’s Lower House between 2012 and 2022, the study employs multivariate regressions and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) in close elections to approximate the random assignment of gender. The findings reveal that female parliamentarians attract fewer cosponsors, particularly from members of their own parties, despite being more likely to support their colleagues’ initiatives and exhibit higher voting participation. This asymmetry highlights a paradox: while female legislators display greater cooperative and altruistic behaviors, they receive less reciprocal backing, limiting their legislative influence. The observed patterns are driven by behavioral gender differences rather than differences in observable characteristics, thematic alignment, or the quality of the politicians.
Nuclear Regulation, Compliance, and Proximity: Evidence from Nuclear Safety
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Avec Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University & CEPR) et Sebastian Schwenen (Technical University of Munich & DIW Berlin)
Nuclear Regulation, Compliance, and Proximity: Evidence from Nuclear Safety
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Avec Mario Daniele Amore et Sebastian Schwenen.
Abstract: Safety compliance typically varies across firms, even in high-risk industries under strict regulation. Analyzing U.S. nuclear power plants, we find that plants located farther from the regulator’s regional office have lower levels of emergency training. This disparity arises from the assignment of less experienced inspectors to more distant plants, with the arrival of less experienced inspectors being associated with a reduction in emergency training. Our findings show that inspector assignment practices are crucial in shaping regulatory effectiveness and safety outcomes.
Sharing the cost of cleaning up non-point source pollution
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Abstract: We address the issue of allocating the costs of cleaning non-point source pollution originating from industrial sites among the firms responsible for these sites. The bilateral liabilities between firms are depicted by an undirected graph. We introduce and axiomatically characterize two cost allocation rules, which are inspired from the Polluter-Pays and Beneficiary-Pays principles commonly referenced in environmental law.
The first rule allocates the cleanup costs of a site equally among the firms potentially contributing to the environmental damage. In contrast, the second rule assigns each firm the full cost of cleaning its own production site. Furthermore, we establish links with cooperative game theory to demonstrate the stability of these allocation rules.
Terrorism, Media Attitudes Towards Migration and Votes: Evidence from France
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Abstract: This paper investigates media attitudes towards migration in the aftermath of terrorist attacks and examines their impact on voting outcomes. Using natural language processing (NLP) methods, we analyze French news articles on immigration before and after three major terrorist events in 2015 and 2016. Our findings show that the salience of immigration in the French media (especially National media) increased for up to eight weeks following the attacks. In particular, in the first three weeks, where immigration was evoked with Muslims or (in)security-related issues, salience increased fivefold. Furthermore, the tone of reporting became significantly more negative, though this effect was shorter in duration, albeit lasting for at least two weeks. Further, we show how this change in media behaviour have participated to the increase in votes in favor of the main anti-migrant party in France, at the Élections Régionales, held 3 weeks after the November 13 attack. We could estimate a contribution of the media's change in behaviour to the total rise in votes for the Far-right of about 2% on average. In some French localities however, we estimated the contribution to reach more than 12%.
Automation at the Workplace: Implications for Workers' Health
Transparency of add-on fees on peer to peer platforms: Evidence from Airbnb
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Résumé: This paper investigates the impact of price transparency on equilibrium prices and fees by considering a policy change implemented by Airbnb that affected the transparency of cleaning fees for IP addresses from the European Union (EU). Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find a reduction in cleaning fees of 2-4%. Consistent with our theoretical framework, we also find that listings without a cleaning fee, something that is common on Airbnb, appear more affordable after the policy change and react by increasing their nightly price by 5-6%. We argue that this result is driven by some hosts learning about the full prices of their rivals due to the transparency policy, finding themselves more affordable. This analysis uncovers a new mechanism through which greater price transparency can lead to price increases.
Efficient copyright filters for online hosting platforms
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Abstract : We build a model where an online hosting platform develops a copyright filter to screen content that contributors wish to upload. The technology is imprecise, since non-infringing material may be incorrectly filtered out. Once the content is hosted on the platform, a right-holder may send a take-down notice if its own monitoring system, also imprecise, finds it to be copyright infringing. The efficient design of regulation and liability calls for (i) giving the right-holder incentives to evaluate fair use when submitting a notice and (ii) lifting the safe-harbor protection granted to platforms that promptly remove content following a take-down notice.
Digital Ecosystems: The Adtech Tax and Content Quality
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Abstract: The adtech industry plays a key role in facilitating connections between digital publishers and advertisers. This paper studies the impact of vertical integration between an intermediary and a major publisher on the online advertising ecosystem and the provision of content. We find that vertical integration enables the intermediary to leverage exclusive access to data, leading to dominance in the intermediation market. As a result, the integrated intermediary is able to collect a larger ad-tech tax from independent publishers by shading its bid for impressions. This practice reduces investments in content by independent publishers, while the integrated publisher increases its investment. Therefore, the net effect of vertical integration on consumer welfare and total welfare can be positive or negative. We discuss potential policy interventions that restore the outcome as under vertical separation.
Exploring Horizontal Mergers in Swedish District Courts Using Technical and Scale Efficiency: Rejecting Convexity in Favour of Nonconvexity
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Abstract: Swedish district courts have undergone a major mergers and acquisitions program between 2000 and 2010 to centralize activity in larger and fewer courts. The purpose of this contribution is to conduct an efficiency analysis of these courts to identify the eventual efficiency gains. Distinguishing mainly between technical and scale efficiency and determining the returns to scale of individual observations, we try to find the potential rationales behind this merger wave. We are to the best of our knowledge the first to combine traditional convex with nonconvex nonparametric frontier methods to calculate efficiency before and after the mergers. It turns out that the nonconvex methods provide a more cogent ex post explanation of this historical merger wave aimed at increasing the size of operations. A battery of recent convexity test statistics reject convexity in favour of nonconvexity.
From Schmattes to Riches: Intergenerational Mobility of American Jewish Immigrants in the Interbellum
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Abstract: We use linked U.S. Census data to study the intergenerational mobility of Jewish immigrants in the first half of the 20th century using Yiddish mother tongue as marker for Jewish origin. Across the distribution of fathers' occupational statuses, Jewish immigrants' sons climbed higher on the socioeconomic ladder than non-Jewish immigrants' and non-immigrant white Americans' sons. In addition, for Jewish sons, fathers' occupational status counted less for social ascent. Education played a critical role in this success. However, a residual `Jewish factor' accounts for as much as education in explaining achievements in earnings, entrepreneurship, or occupational status. We document the roles of network effects, family size, investment strategies, and geographical mobility as possible channels for such divergence in intergenerational mobility. No plausible amount of unobservable selection could cancel these results.
Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs, and Offending
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Avec H. Allouard, G. Cecere, J. de Sousa, O. Marie
Abstract: We investigate the impact of the rise of on-demand food delivery platforms on local employment and crime rates, leveraging the temporal and geographic disparities in their introduction in France. Our staggered difference-in-differences approach reveals that the arrival of a delivery platform in an employment area increases job opportunities for unqualified jobs, as evidenced by a rise in registered riders. This increase in employment opportunities concurrently leads to a large reduction in drug-related crimes. These results indicate that the gig economy fosters employment opportunities for low-skilled workers, youth, and migrants, facilitating their engagement in lawful economic activities.
Mitigating Generative AI Hallucinations
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With Ester Manna & Shubranshu Singh
Abstract : Generative AI systems often suffer from AI hallucinations in that they may provide confident responses unjustified by their training data. Given the increasing reliance on generative AI systems, it is hard to overstate the perils of AI hallucinations. In this paper, we explore the question of whether AI developers or human decision makers should be liable for the harm the AI systems may cause. We develop a novel theoretical framework to study and compare implications of liability for developers of AI systems versus liability for human decision makers. We find that in some cases AI developer liability can interestingly result in over-supervision and under-adoption by the human decision makers. Although AI operator liability leads to efficient accuracy investment when AI accuracy is publicly observed, developer liability results in higher accuracy investment when it is privately observed by the developer. We show that the optimal allocation of liability may change over time, depending on the evolution of the technology.
Digital adoption and literacy: a new divide between migrants and natives?
National Security Policies and Corporate Investment
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Abstract: We examine national security policies implemented by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and how they affect corporate investment. CFIUS can deny regulatory approval of foreign takeovers on national security grounds. We document a sharp increase in CFIUS denials of regulatory approval during the 2008-2019 sample period in which the Foreign Investment and National Security Act (FINSA) was in place. CFIUS denials are followed by a negative market reaction, a decrease in foreign takeovers, and a reduction in corporate investment in industries of the blocked-acquisition targets. The decreases in corporate investment are more pronounced among firms that are ex-ante financially constrained. Our results may be of interest to regulators who have recently adopted CFIUS-like mechanisms to protect critical assets from foreign hands.
Bringing Contact Interventions to the Lab: Effects of Bilateral Discussions on Interethnic Trust in Senegal
Enemies with benefits': On the rationale of trading arms with an enemy
Off-platform tracking and data externalities
Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth
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with Sergei Guriev, Emeric Henry, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
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Does Access Mean Success? Connection to Policy-Makers and Lobbying Success of Political Actors
The Bright Side of the GDPR: Welfare-improving Privacy Management
Domino Secessions : Evidence from the US
The Impact of Name and Shame and Fee-Shifting on Frivolous Lawsuits
Court Resolution and Predictive Justice
On the Strategic Choice of Overconfident Lawyers
Conciliation, Social Preferences, and Pre-Trial Settlement: a Laboratory Experiment.
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Co-écrit avec Matthieu Belarouci & Vincent Lenglin
Abstract :We experimentally study conciliation, an intervention aimed at improving bargaining efficiency. In conciliation, a neutral third party collaborates with the parties by suggesting resolutions to promote agreements. Unlike delegation or arbitration, conciliation fully preserves the autonomy of the parties. Unlike mediation, the conciliator cannot filter information. Whether conciliation can improve bargaining efficiency is an open question. In our laboratory experiment, two "litigants" bargain over the split of a loss in an unstructured protocol. In case of failure, a random split is implemented. In some conditions, a third party, the conciliator takes part in the bargaining by submitting non-binding suggestions to the litigants. We find that, on average, conciliation does not affect the likelihood of failure or the splits that are agreed upon by litigants. However, for bargaining pairs composed of selfish litigants, conciliation leads to more equal agreements. Conciliation also reduces bargaining delays: the time and the number of offers necessary to converge to an agreement are significantly reduced in the presence of a conciliator.
Measuring the Impact of Incarceration on Recidivism in Denmark
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with M. Rosholm & M. Simonsen
Experts and Arbitration Outcomes: Insights from Public Procurement Contract Disputes, avec Riccardo Marselli, Bryan Mccannon et Marco Vannin
How to seed a platform? Overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem with owned, earned and paid media
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Avec Christian Peukert
Does news coverage of violence against women affect their reporting and judicial treatment?
Less than meets the eye: simultaneous experiments as a source of algorithmic seeming collusion
Media information provision and criminal behavior
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Abstract : This paper provides a theoretical framework to consider the effects of profit-driven media as an information provider about criminal issues on criminal behaviors and avoidance behaviors of victims. Then, we show that profit-driven news media reporting can be biased and over-misrepresented about criminal situations. This leads to an increased demand for crime news reporting of offenders and victims and causes inefficient behaviors compared to the social welfare perspective. This kind of distortion can be happened by the informal sanction provided by the profit-driven media. These help us to discuss direct and indirect interactions between criminal policies and intervention for media industries.
Measuring and quantifying regulation with new indicators. The cases of anti-discrimination legislation and “Green Regulation”
Building Reputation: Proxy Wars and Transnational Identities
American bias in a local music streaming market: curation push vs. preference pull
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A dynamic theory of regulatory capture
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Market-dependent preferences, positive and negative network effects and welfare
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Migration, Social Change, and the Early Decline in U.S. Fertility
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Avec A. Fogli
Abstract: We study the impact of internal migration on the U.S. fertility transition in the Nineteenth century. We show that fertility declined faster in counties characterized by a higher outward migration, especially towards the Western frontier. We exploit the number of acres granted to veterans of the American wars to estimate the causal effect of migration on fertility decline. Our theory is based on the diffusion of new family values governing intergenerational behavior with respect to saving and fertility. Migration and the lack of remittance technology lowered expected transfers from children, and incentivized precautionary savings of parents. Results are robust to several measures of fertility and internal migration.
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Competition and value capture in platform markets: Implications for complementor strategy
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Co-auteure: Johannes Loh
When Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? Revisiting Benartzi et al. (2017)
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Televised Debates and Emotionality in Politics: Evidence from C-SPAN
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Co-auteur: E. Ash
Online popularity, fake followers and soccer players' value
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Improving the Perception of the Police by the Youth
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Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and Employment Duration
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Co-auteurs: Simon Briole et Laura Khoury
Privacy, Data and Competition: The Case of Apps For Young Children
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American bias in a local music streaming market: curation push vs. preference pull
Predicting patent lawsuits with machine learning
Law and Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Optimal Liability Rules for Accident Losses Caused by Autonomous Vehicles
Quelles régulations pour la modération des contenus en ligne ?
Strategic confusopoly: evidence from the UK mobile market
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Electricity shortage and municipal elections: Evidence from Lebanon
Revisiting the effects of abortion legalization
From intermediaries to moderators of the internet: Should online platforms be liable?
Hitting the Right Target? Pricing and Advertising Strategies in Digital Markets
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Avec Grazia Cecere and Sarah Lemaire
Data Driven Mergers and Acquisitions with Information Synergies
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co-auteur: Patrick Legros
The Value of Your Data: Privacy and Personal Data Exchange Networks
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co-auteur: B. De los Santos
Detecting fraud in public procurement: methodology and application to French Data
Ministers engage in favoritism too
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Bodily injury claims in France : negotiation or court?
Credence Goods and Consumer Feedback
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coécrit avec M. Ayouni
Paradoxes de vote et décision des juges constitutionnels : une approche empirique sur le cas français
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co-écrit avec Ph. Mongin
A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy
Abusive contract terms: is the unconscionability doctrine deterrent?
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co-écrit avec C. Desrieux
Regulating Platform Fees Under Price Parity
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co-écrit avec Renato Gomes
Digital Platforms, Aggregated Data, and Entry with Informational Spillovers
Sentencing Decisions Around Quantity Thresholds: Theory and Experiment
Prison, Mental health and Family Spillovers
Overconfident managers, consumers misperceiving product risk, and product liability
Getting used to terrorist threats? Evidence from French terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016
Custodial vs non-custodial sentences : Long-run evidence from an anticipated reform
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avec Bastien Michel
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbgsgpzbmck61jv/DP15047-2.pdf?dl=0
Plea Bargaining and the Battle-of-the-Sexes Dilemma in Inquisitorial Criminal Justice Systems
Appointed of Elected? How Mayoral Accountability Impacts the Provision of Policing
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Resource Sharing in Households with Children: A Generalized Model and Empirical Evidence from the UK
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avec Olivier Bargain et Imen Hentati
Cartel deterrence and manager labor market in US and EU antitrust jurisdictions: theory and experimental data
Prison Rehabilitation Programs: Efficiency and Targeting
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coécrit avec G. Lacroix et S. Marchand
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Multimarket Contact and Platform Competition: Reassessing the Mutual Forbearance Hypothesis
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avec Thomas LE TEXIER, Zhiwen LI and Thierry PENARD
The ownership of data
The CV effect :How far do the chances to reorganize depend on the bankruptcy judges’ profile?
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avec S. Esquerre
Reputational vs Beckerian Sanctions
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The optimal use of vague standards in contract law
HOW DOES REGULATORY COMPLEXITY AFFECT BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY? EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN?
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coauthored with Ricardo Pérez-Valls
Efficient Bargaining in Decentralized Matching Markets
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avec Marcel Fafchamps
On double marginalization and vertical integration
Judgment-Contingent Commitments: Signaling in Negative Expected-Value Suits
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Punishment for Intentions or Outcomes: The Role of Gender and Social Norm
Les effets de la limitation des dépenses de campagne sur la participation électorale
Pill Access, Abortion Legalization, and the Fabric of American College Students
Toxic Loans and the Rise in Populist Candidacies
Sex crime, reporting and #MeToo
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Economic integration, industrial structure, and catch-up growth: Firm-level evidence from Poland
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Quelles données et quels outils pour analyser la délinquance et la victimation?
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Journalism Quality
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coécrit avec Elliott Ash, Julia Cagé et Nicolas Hervé
Arranged marriages, premarital investments and the family network
Victim-Defendant Settlements under Asymmetric Bargaining Positions: The Role of Wealth and Connections in Access to Justice
Exclusion with Patent Clearinghouse: the role of arbitration
Gender and Lawmaking in Times of Quotas
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Long-Run Growth Impact of E-Procurement: Evidence from Singapore
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Authors: Lela Mélon, Rok Spruk
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International Criminal Court Deterrence and Optimal Enforcement of International Criminal Law
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Does It Pay to Fight Crime? Evidence From the Pacification of Slums in Rio de Janeiro
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Access to Justice and Economic Development: Evidence from an International Panel Dataset
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co-écrit avec Adam Levai et Michèle Schmiegelow
Airbnb in Paris: quel impact sur l'industrie hôtelière?
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co-écrit avec Ewen Gallic
Use of Precedent in Labor Arbitration Awards
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co-écrit avec Ariana Levinson et Erin O’Hara O'Connor
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Political budget cycles and government payments
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with Marco Buso and Luigi Moretti
Compétition politique et stratégie de confusion: une analyse empirique
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co-écrit avec Jean Beuve
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Blockchain, innovation et concurrence
Much ado about nothing? Online platform price parity clauses and the EU Booking.com case
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co-écrit avec Claudio Piga et Carlo Reggiani
Consumers' Costly Responses to Product Harm Crises
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with Helena Perrone (Mannheim University)
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Economics of free mobile applications: Personal data
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co-écrit avec Fabrice Le Guel et Vincent Lefrere
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Productivity Benfits from Institutional and Political Integration: Evidence from 1995 EU Enlargement
Estimating Consumer Inertia in Repeated Choices of Smartphones
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In this paper, we use a unique database on switching between mobile handsets in a sample of about 8,623 subscribers using tariffs without handset subsidy from a single mobile operator on monthly basis between July 2011 and December 2014. We estimate a discrete choice model in which we account for disutility from switching to a different operating systems and handset brands and for unobserved time-persistent preferences for operating systems and brands. Our estimation results indicate presence of significant state-dependency in the choices of operating systems and brands. We find that it is harder for consumers to switch from iOs to Android and other operating systems than from Android and other operating systems to iOS. Moreover, we find that there is significant time-persistent heterogeneity in preferences for different operating systems and brands, which also leads to state-dependent choices. We use our model to simulate market shares in the absence of switching costs and conclude that the market share of Android and smaller operating systems would increase at the expense of the market share of iOs.
co-écrit avec Lukasz Grzybowski
Lone Wolves, Sleeping Elephants or Predator Hawks? Institutional Shocks and Counterfactual Long-Run Development Paths
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Selling strategic information in digital competitive markets
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Screening for Patent Quality
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co-écrit avec Mark Schankerman
Do Wrongfully Convicted Defendants receive higher punishments?
The role of local institutions in reducing conflict:Evidence from Indonesia
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Abstract : In this paper we investigate the impact of local competition for public funds on conflict in Indonesia. We use a triple differences approach that exploits an exogenous source of variation in competition given by the number of villages that compete for sub-district level funds. We find a small but significant impact of competition on conflict. Larger effects are found for local (within-village) and ethnic-type conflict. We provide a number of potential mechanisms that might explain our findings.
Judicial Delegation
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avec Sébastien Grobon, Insee et Ined
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avec Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt
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co-écrit avec Rafael C. de M. Ferraz et Yann Ménière
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co-écrit avec Winand Emons (Un. de Berne)
Cross-Licensing and Competition
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Black Sheep or Scapegoats? Implementable Monitoring Policies Under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior
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Agir et ne pas agir aux prud'hommes (1994-2013)
Confidence, Optimism and Litigation: A Litigation Model under Ambiguity
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Patent hold-up: theory and evidence
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Product Liability versus Reputation
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co-écrit avec Tim Friehe, University of Bonn, Bianca Rundshagen, Universty of Hagen
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Insufficient compensation and multiple equilibria
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co-écrit avec Abel François (LaRGE, Université de Strasbourg) et Raul Magni-Breton (Pacte, Université de Grenoble)
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co-écrit avec Patrick Rey
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co-écrit avec Emmanuelle Auriol and Rodrigo Paillacar
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co-écrit avec Sofia Amaral-Garcia (Post-Doctorante à l'Université de Zurich)
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en partenariat avec les Ecoles Doctorales "Economie Organisation Société" et "Sciences Juridiques et Politique"
Relative performance of Liability Rules : Experimental Evidence
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co-écrit avec Vera Angelova (Max Planck Institute of Economics) et Giuseppe Attanasi (BETA, Université de Strasbourg)
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co-écrit avec Francesco Parisi (Université du Minnesota, Law School)
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Coalition Formation and Environmental Policies in International Oligopoly Markets
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co-écrit avec M. Cavagnac (Université de Limoges et TSE)
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La fixation du niveau des pensions alimentaires : des pratiques, un barème
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co-écrit avec et Isabelle Sayn (CERCRID, Université Jean Monnet)
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Anticompetitive Vertical Merger Wave
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co-écrit avec Charles Palmer (Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics), Riyong Kim Bakkegaard (University of Copenhagen), Bo Jellesmark Thorsen (University of Copenhagen)
Les trois mondes de l'Etat-providence revisités
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co-écrit avec Emmanuelle Taugourdeau et Sarah Brockhoff
The Impact of Debtor Friendly Reforms on the Performance of a Reorganization Procedure
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Séance en partenariat avec l'Ecole Doctorale de Sciences Juridiques et Politiques et son séminaire doctoral "Relations entre Science Juridique et Science Economique" coordonné par Bertrand du Marais (CRDP) et Sophie Harnay (EconomiX)
The ways the law leads to cooperative behaviour and the importance of judicial legitimacy
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How do GM/non GM coexistence regulations affect markets and welfare?
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co-écrit avec Marion Desquilbet (GREMAQ, INRA,TSE)
Building legal indexes to explain recovery rates: an analysis of the french and UK bankruptcy codes
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co-écrit avec B. Chopard et N. Nigam
Dynamics of legal systems : individual strategies, social implications
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co-écrit avec Bruno Deffains et Bruno Lovat
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co-écrit avec P. Charléty et MC. Fagart
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avec Carine Milcent
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Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Protection and Interest Group Politics
Moral Hazard and Collusion in Organizations
Les mécanismes de construction de l'agenda de la gouvernance
The Case for Econometrics towards the New European Merger Regulation: HACHETTE/EDITIS
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Least-Cost Avoidance and Partial Compensation
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avec Scott E. Masten
The Safety‐Net Benefits of DFU Banks During the Crisis: Evidence from the US and Europe
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co-écrit avec B.Crettez
Legal Liability When Individuals Have Moral Concerns
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co-écrit avec Bruno Deffains
The Economics of Copyright Valuation
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avec B. Crettez
Until Death Do Us Part? The Economics of Short-Term Marriage Contracts
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avec G. Ponthière
An Economic Analysis of Corporate Criminal Liability
Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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co-écrit avec Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Optimal Enforcement with Heterogenous Cartels
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co-écrit avec Sissel Jensen
(Un)secured Debt and the Likelihood of Court-supervised Reorganization
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co-écrit avec Régis Blazy
Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
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co-écrit avec Fernanda Brollo
The Co-evolution of Technology and Institutions: Agriculture and Private Property
Can experiments inform regulators?
Too Much R&D Although Polluters Underestimate Environmental Harm?
Expertise and Bias in Decision Making
Competition Policy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Assessment
The Reliability of the Bertrand Curse: An Experimental Investigation of Leniency Programs for Underground Work
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avec J-L. Rullière
Managerial effort incentives and market collusion
Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries
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avec Emmanuelle Auriol
Democracy, Judicial Attitudes and Heterogeneity: the Civil Versus Common Law Tradition
Forgiving Overconfidence in Tort Law
How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890-2005
The puzzle of legal harmonization
The resolution of disputes when parties have psychological motivations
Analyse économique de la prestation compensatoire : entre logique redistributive et logique réparatrice
Cost of public funds, rewards and law enforcement
La mesure de l'efficacité du droit des faillites, retour sur l'appréciation quantitative d'une institution capitaliste
Quelques réflexions autour de la décision du Conseil de la Concurrence "voyages-sncf.com"
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écrit en collaboration avec Julien Pillot
Tax Competition Revisited: An Endogenous Timing Game
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co-écrit avec N. Marceau (UQAM)
Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information: Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field
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co-écrit avec R.Sausgruber et G.Fellner
Optimal production of transplant care services
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co-écrit avec Bruno Deffains
No-Starts and Dead Ends: Sequentiality Matters in Law and Economics
Class action coming out: opt-in and opt-out features
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Olson's Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of File-sharing Behaviour in P2P File-Sharing Communities
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coécrit avec Sylvain Dejean et Raphaël Suire
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Housing policy and residential mobility: contrasts between France and teh U.S.
A model of procedural fairness
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Depersonalization of Business in Ancient Rome
The role of risk preferences, social norms and emotions in explaining financial system inertia
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Posner, Economics and the Law: From Law and Economics to an Economic Analysis of Law
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en collaboration avec Sophie Harnay
Analyse économique du droit
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Deuxième édition de son ouvrage (Dalloz, Méthodes du droit, 2008)
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Commitments in Antitrust
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Legal vs economic explanation of the rise in bankruptcies in XIXth century France
Discussion de « Legal origins »
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Glaeser et Shleifer, QJE, 2002
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