Antoine Mandel's research while affiliated with Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and other places

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A crucial task to accelerate global decarbonisation is to understand how to enable fast, equitable, low-carbon transformations in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs). In this early literature review we underlined the relevance of the boundary concept of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) and showed that the research and policy usage of...
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This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the transition process and to identify empirical evidence of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) in the case studies on coal and carbon intensive regions (CCIRs) analyzed in the project TIPPING+. The interdisciplinary lens considers different modes of thought, frameworks,...
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of India imposed production restrictions on various sectors of the economy. Prima facie there is reason to believe that the cost of the quantity constraints may be greater than their simple sum. This is because quantity constraints percolate through the production network forcing some sectors to...
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Over the last decade, numerous economists have argued that firm-level idiosyncratic productivity shocks can generate much of the observed aggregate volatility if the firms are placed on a production network. We test this hypothesis using granular data on buyer-seller relations between more than half a million firms in the US economy. We find that f...
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This paper develops a network economy model to study the propagation of the COVID lockdown shock. Firms are related to each other through buyer–seller relations in the market for intermediate inputs. Firms choose production levels and input combinations using prices that emerge from local interactions. Nothing forbids trade at out-of-equilibrium pr...
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We develop a tractable model of price dynamics in a general equilibrium economy with cash-in-advance constraints. The dynamics emerge from local interactions between firms that are governed by the production network underlying the economy. We analytically characterise the influence of network structure on the propagation of monetary shocks. In the...
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This paper estimates the cost of the lockdown of some sectors of the world economy in the wake of COVID-19. We develop a multi sector disequilibrium model with buyer-seller relations between agents located in different countries. The production network model allows us to study not only the direct cost of the lockdown but also indirect costs which e...
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Empirical evidence shows monetary shocks have two temporary effects on the distribution of prices. One, the dispersion of cross-section of prices increases in response to monetary shocks. Two, some prices change in the ‘wrong’ direction: some prices decrease in response to positive monetary shocks, and increase in response to negative monetary shoc...
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We propose an analytical approach to the problem of influence maximization in a social network where two players compete by means of dynamic targeting strategies. We formulate the problem as a two-player zero-sum stochastic game. We prove the existence of the uniform value: if the players are sufficiently patient, both can guarantee the same mean-a...
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We introduce a methodology to estimate the determinants of the formation of technology diffusion networks from the patterns of technology adoption. We apply this methodology to wind energy, which is one of the key technologies in climate change mitigation. Our results emphasize that, in particular, long-term relationships as measured by economic in...
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The role of technology transfer in the mitigation of climate change has been strongly emphasized in the recent policy debate. This paper offers a network-based perspective on the issue. First, we propose a methodology to infer from technology adoption data the network of diffusion and apply it to a detailed dataset on wind energy technologies insta...
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Green bonds are seen as a key instrument to unlock climate finance. While their volume has grown steadily in recent years, the impact of the ‘green’ label on the bond market is poorly understood. Here, we investigate the differences between the yield term structures of green and conventional bonds in the US municipal bond market. We show that, alth...

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... From an initial focus on innovation uptake, recent attention has been placed on phase-out processes to create space and momentum for innovations and accelerating transition (Rogge & Johnstone, 2017;Turnheim & Geels, 2012;Trencher et al., 2023). This shift emphasizes the significance of considering the development and stabilization of innovations alongside the destabilization and decline of existing practices and structures to understand and navigate low-carbon transitions (Hebinck et al., 2022;Mangalagiu et al., 2024;Biddau et al., 2024). In contrast, the resilience perspective examines the transformations of human-environment coupled systems (referred as social-ecological systems, SES) (Folke, 2006;Olsson et al., 2014;Moore et al., 2014) as systemic changes that involve creating new development pathways when ecological, economic, or social conditions make the existing system untenable (Folke et al., 2010). ...
... Stadelmann-Steffen et al. (2021) highlight the challenges in understanding the multiple and complex factors driving social tipping dynamics, pointing out that there are different levels at which these factors interact: political, technological, and behavioral. In this context, there is a need for improved understanding about conditions that enable and promote the emergence of systemic transformations across multiple levels of social systems and the role that actors can have in them (Tàbara et al. 2021;Lenton et al. 2023;Alkemade et al 2023). The supplyand demand-side dimensions of so-called "positive tipping points" have also been featured in various editions of the 10 New Insights (Insights 10 in 2019, and 6 in 2021). ...
... In this paper, however, we use a version of IO-Net model in which the production network is fixed, though firms do make decisions on prices and quantities. IO-Net model has been used to study the emergence of scale-free production networks (Gualdi and Mandel 2016), the relation between network topology and innovation in generating economic growth (Gualdi and Mandel 2018), and the behavior of prices in response to monetary shocks (Mandel et al. 2019;Mandel and Veetil 2021). The model has a bottom-up veneer as firms make decisions using local information about demands and input prices. ...
... In some senses, this paper is an application of our previous work on the COVID lockdowns to the Indian economy. In Mandel and Veetil (2020b), we study the cost of supply chain disruptions using the world input-output table, while in Mandel and Veetil (2020a), we study the impact of the lockdowns on the US economy using a granular data set on buyer-seller relations between firms. One of the theoretical contributions which distinguishes this paper from our previous work on the COVID lockdowns is the idea of 'an overshooting recovery' and its relation to price stickiness. ...
... Mass screening has been shown to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by simulation studies (6), as well as in retrospective studies of programs in Slovakia, Liverpool (United Kingdom), and South Tyrol (Italy) (9)(10)(11). Furthermore, whereas NPIs such as lockdowns are associated with tremendous explicit and implicit negative consequences (12,13), including financial costs, disrupted education, and adverse effects on mental health, mass screening is particularly attractive for its limited negative consequences. These are primarily direct financial costs associated with procuring, distributing, and administering tests, which can reasonably be estimated prior to implementation (14). ...
... In some senses, this paper is an application of our previous work on the COVID lockdowns to the Indian economy. In Mandel and Veetil (2020b), we study the cost of supply chain disruptions using the world input-output table, while in Mandel and Veetil (2020a), we study the impact of the lockdowns on the US economy using a granular data set on buyer-seller relations between firms. One of the theoretical contributions which distinguishes this paper from our previous work on the COVID lockdowns is the idea of 'an overshooting recovery' and its relation to price stickiness. ...
... In recent years, there have been numerous studies on oneshot game, mainly focusing on trust building and risk management. However, most of these studies have explored the cognitive abilities of individual decision-making (Ye, Zhang & Lee, 2023;Shinitzky et al., 2023), social psychological factors such as fairness (Luo et al., 2019;Rand et al., 2013), moral sensitivity (Capraro & Perc, 2021), cultural differences and diversity (Espín et al., 2022), and social network backgrounds (Mandel & Venel, 2020).One-shot games primarily focus on how participants make cooperative decisions without any prior cooperative experience or information. In one-shot games, participants must rely on limited information to judge the other party's willingness to cooperate, such as personality traits. ...
... In this paper, however, we use a version of IO-Net model in which the production network is fixed, though firms do make decisions on prices and quantities. IO-Net model has been used to study the emergence of scale-free production networks (Gualdi and Mandel 2016), the relation between network topology and innovation in generating economic growth (Gualdi and Mandel 2018), and the behavior of prices in response to monetary shocks (Mandel et al. 2019;Mandel and Veetil 2021). The model has a bottom-up veneer as firms make decisions using local information about demands and input prices. ...
... First, they tend to focus on bilateral relationships between countries as a measure of international connections. Yet, technology diffusion is not a straightforward bilateral process; it often involves strong network effects originating from agents' indirect linkages (Aldieri et al., 2019;Derudder, 2021;Halleck-Vega et al., 2018;Jackson et al., 2017). The second concern arises with the idea of countries as agents in transnational CCMT diffusion. ...
... Nevertheless, previous research on CCMT diffusion has predominantly embraced a bilateral perspective, with limited exploration of network effects. A notable exception is the work of Halleck- Vega et al. (2018). In their study, the authors adopt a network-based approach to analyze the global transnational diffusion of wind energy technologies from 1983 to 2016. ...