Quite often, a firm has to decide between investing in a safe project ("small") where rewards and losses remain moderate and a risky alternative ("big") where the rewards and the losses are larger. We study such a choice in a context where the probability of success depends both on the intrinsic...

Two types of legislation underlie cadaveric organ donations: presumed consent (PC) and informed consent (IC). In informed consent countries, people are only donors when deceased if they registered to do so while alive. Conversely, in presumed consent countries, anybody is a potential donor when...

We consider the issue of identifying nonparametrically mixture models. In thesemodels, all observed variables depend on a common and unobserved component,but are mutually independent conditional on it. Such models are important in themeasurement error, auction and matching literatures....

This paper studies the impact of campaign spending on votes in French legislative elections. We exploit the political financing reforms which were adopted in France in the mid-1990s. Under the new laws, spending limits were reduced, legal persons were no longer allowed to finance candidates, and...

This profile of Jean-Michel Grandmont is based on several interviews we had with him between September 2016 and April 2017. The interviews took place at our CREST offices, located at that time in Malakoff, just south of Paris. The objective of the profile is twofold. First, we trace the career...