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econ.TH2025
Grabbing the Forbidden Fruit: Restriction-Sensitive Choice
Niels Boissonnet, Alexis Ghersengorin
Restricting individuals' access to some opportunities may steer their desire toward their substitutes, a phenomenon known as the forbidden fruit effect. We axiomatize a choice mode…
econ.TH2024
Robust Regulation of Labour Contracts
Théo Durandard, Alexis Ghersengorin
We study the robust regulation of contracts in moral hazard problems. A firm offers a contract to incentivise a worker protected by limited liability. A regulator restricts the set…
econ.TH2024
Redistribution Through Market Segmentation
Victor Augias, Alexis Ghersengorin, Daniel M. A. Barreto
We study how to optimally segment monopolistic markets with a redistributive objective. We characterize optimal redistributive segmentations and show that they (i) induce the selle…