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Random consideration and choice: A case study of «default» options
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-11)
A growing number of stochastic choice models include a “default” option for situations where the decision maker selects none of the feasible alternatives. While this is a welcome development, these models also present an ...
Threshold Luce rules
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-11)
In the late 1950’s, Luce proposed two different theories of imperfect utility discrimination that have had a lasting impact on economics. One model (1956) gave rise to the literature on just noticeable differences while ...
Innovation growth clusters : Lessons from the industrial revolution
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-08)
Over three centuries ago, a new technology suddenly increased the amount and frequency of available information. Might such «Big Data» have disrupted the causal relationships linking economic growth and innovation? Previous ...
Clinical, anatomical and pathological features in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia : a review
(Frontiers media, 2018-08-21)
Primary progressive aphasias (PPA) are neurodegenerative diseases clinically
characterized by an early and relatively isolated language impairment. Three main
clinical variants, namely the nonfluent/agrammatic variant ...
Pour une définition de l’éditorialisation
(Classiques Garnier, 2018-06-30)
"Cet article présente les résultats de huit ans de travail sur le concept d’éditorialisation, réalisés dans le cadre du séminaire international « Écritures numériques et éditorialisation » que j’ai coorganisé avec Nicolas ...
Our format : PennSound and the articulation of an interface for poetry audio recordings
(Western University. Department of English and Writing Studies, 2018-06)
The impact of uncertainty in agriculture
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-08)
Income uncertainty in the rural economy is widely considered an important impediment to growth in poor countries. This paper uses a rich dataset on productivity, land use, and output for 17 different crops across 500,000 ...
Discrimination without taste : How discrimination can spillover and persist
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-06)
We introduce coordination failures driven by beliefs regarding the presence of taste discriminators as a channel of discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination ...
Monetary policy in sudden stop-prone economies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-06)
In a model featuring sudden stops and pecuniary externalities, I show that the ability to use capital controls has radical implications for the conduct of monetary policy. Absent capital controls, following an inflation ...
Robust design in monotonic matching markets : a case for firm-proposing deferred-acceptance
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-05)
We study two-sided matching markets among workers and firms. Workers seek one position at a firm but firms may employ several workers. In many applications those markets are monotonic: leaving positions unfilled is costly ...