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Bénédicte Apouey: “Gig Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis in France: Financial Precarity and Mental Well-Being” (PSE WP)

Bénédicte Apouey: “Gig Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis in France: Financial Precarity and Mental Well-Being” (PSE WP)

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By Bénédicte Apouey, Alexandra Roulet, Isabelle Solal and Mark Stabile PSE Working Papers, halshs-02932784, September 2020 We surveyed and interviewed precarious workers in France during the COVID-19 crisis, in March and April 2020. We oversampled gig economy workers, in particular in driving and food delivery occupations (hereafter drivers and bikers), residing in metropolitan areas. These […]

The representativeness of the Citizens’ Climate Convention (Working note)

The representativeness of the Citizens’ Climate Convention (Working note)

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Citizens’ Climate Convention: The citizens of the Convention compared to representative samples of the French population. Are the citizens of the Citizens’ Climate Convention (CCC) representative of the French population? Do they approve of the climate policies proposed by the Convention? This paper addresses these questions by comparing the views of the citizens of the […]

(Visitor) Mirjam Dageförde

(Visitor) Mirjam Dageförde

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Mirjam Dageförde est chercheuse en Science Politique au centre Max Bloch à Berlin et invitée à PSE. Sa spécialité est l’étude de la “congruence” entre les électeurs et les partis. Cette visite est évidemment perturbée par les contraintes sanitaires, mais Mirjam sera là cet été. En attendant elle donne le lunch séminaire d’Economie Appliquée, mardi […]

Jean-François Laslier: “Do Kantians drive others to extinction ?” (PSE WP)

Jean-François Laslier: “Do Kantians drive others to extinction ?” (PSE WP)

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By Jean-François Laslier PSE Working Papers, halshs-02652020, June 2020 About John Roemer’s book How we cooperate. This paper comments on the claim by John Roemer that “in games of pure coordination, Kantians drive Nashers to extinction”. Using an explicit dynamic model of evolution, it is noticed that in these games, Kantian optimizers do not always […]

Jean-François Laslier: A solution to the two-person implementation problem (PSE WP)

Jean-François Laslier: A solution to the two-person implementation problem (PSE WP)

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By Jean-François Laslier, Matias Nunez and Remzi Sanver PSE Working Papers, halshs-02173504, May 2020 This paper proposes strike mechanisms as a solution to the classical problem of Hurwicz and Schmeidler according to which, in two-person societies, no Pareto efficient rule is Nash-implementable. A strike mechanism specifies the number of alternatives that each player vetoes. Each […]