Risk aversion and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

in Health Economics (in press)

We here investigate the role of risk aversion in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The theoretical effect is ambiguous, as both COVID-19 infection and vaccination side-effects involve probabilistic elements. In ... [more ▼]

We here investigate the role of risk aversion in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The theoretical effect is ambiguous, as both COVID-19 infection and vaccination side-effects involve probabilistic elements. In large-scale data covering five European countries, we find that vaccine hesitancy falls with risk aversion, so that COVID-19 infection is perceived as involving greater risk than is vaccination. [less ▲]

Administrative Law in the European Union: The Liberal Constitutional Paradigm and Institutionalism as an Imperfect Alternative

in Harlow, Carol (Ed.) A Research Agenda for Administrative Law (in press)

EU administrative law – both as law and as a scholarly field – has, to a significant extent, suffered from a tendency to seek analogies with categories of state public law, more especially perhaps in its ... [more ▼]

EU administrative law – both as law and as a scholarly field – has, to a significant extent, suffered from a tendency to seek analogies with categories of state public law, more especially perhaps in its general legal principles and norms common to the various sectors of EU administrative power. I argue in this chapter that this normative approach, which has largely shaped its judicial and scholarly development and has contributed greatly to bringing about an administrative rule of law in the European Union, is limited. Phenomena that, while present in other legal systems, are core to the functioning of the EU legal order cannot be suitably tackled with conceptions of public law inspired by the binary logic of protecting individual legal spheres from the exercise of public authority that has largely grounded administrative law in state settings. In the final section, I propose an imperfect alternative perspective on public law, drawing on the institutionalism of the Italian jurist, Santi Romano. [less ▲]

Expectation Shock in Education: Utilising Industry SERVQUAL to Enhance Student Perception of STEAM and STEAM Careers

in International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (in press)

In industry, an Expectation Shock occurs when a customer has a post-experience Perception that greatly exceeds their prior Expectation. In our study, the customers are students and teachers. An ... [more ▼]

In industry, an Expectation Shock occurs when a customer has a post-experience Perception that greatly exceeds their prior Expectation. In our study, the customers are students and teachers. An Expectation shock might occur when, for example, a student ‘just did not expect to find STEAM so interesting’. The objective of this research was to determine how Expectation Shock might be used in schools to enhance student Perception of STEAM and STEAM careers. It was found that Expectation shock in the form of Hothousing intensive, collaborative workshops can be used in schools to greatly enhance student Perception of STEAM and STEAM careers and give them experience of Industry practice valuable for their future careers. Educational practice should focus on enhancing student or teacher Perception rather than stated Importance. It is essential to examine Perception post-experience versus prior Expectation to identify benefits (or not) from the activity. [less ▲]

Mode modeste : entre éthique et esthétique

Book published by Hermann (in press)

Introduction

in Mode modeste : entre éthique et esthétique (in press)

Soft skills for mathematical teachers

Diverse speeches and writings (in press)

Le Modèle de Partenariat Humaniste en Santé : un modèle conceptuel de soins infirmiers pour mieux comprendre, accepter et accompagner la personne qui refuse une aide ou un soin

in Hesbeen, Walter (Ed.) Face au refus d’aide et de soins. Penser en équipe le positionnement éthique (in press)

A generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's theorem for higher order convex functions: A tutorial

in Aequationes Mathematicae (in press)

In its additive version, Bohr-Mollerup's remarkable theorem states that the unique (up to an additive constant) convex solution $f(x)$ to the equation $\Delta f(x)=\ln x$ on the open half-line $(0,\infty ... [more ▼]

In its additive version, Bohr-Mollerup's remarkable theorem states that the unique (up to an additive constant) convex solution $f(x)$ to the equation $\Delta f(x)=\ln x$ on the open half-line $(0,\infty)$ is the log-gamma function $f(x)=\ln\Gamma(x)$, where $\Delta$ denotes the classical difference operator and $\Gamma(x)$ denotes the Euler gamma function. In a recently published open access book, the authors provided and illustrated a far-reaching generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's theorem by considering the functional equation $\Delta f(x)=g(x)$, where $g$ can be chosen from a wide and rich class of functions that have convexity or concavity properties of any order. They also showed that the solutions $f(x)$ arising from this generalization satisfy counterparts of many properties of the log-gamma function (or equivalently, the gamma function), including analogues of Bohr-Mollerup's theorem itself, Burnside's formula, Euler's infinite product, Euler's reflection formula, Gauss' limit, Gauss' multiplication formula, Gautschi's inequality, Legendre's duplication formula, Raabe's formula, Stirling's formula, Wallis's product formula, Weierstrass' infinite product, and Wendel's inequality for the gamma function. In this paper, we review the main results of this new and intriguing theory and provide an illustrative application. [less ▲]

Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France

in Review of Economics of the Household (in press)

Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this ... [more ▼]

Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this insurance. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax, paid by larger private firms when they laid off workers aged 50 or over, led to an exogenous rise in job insecurity for the uncovered (younger workers) in these larger firms. A difference-in-differences analysis using French panel data reveals that this greater job insecurity for the under-50s led to a significant rise in their probability of marriage, and especially when the partner had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance against labour-market risk. [less ▲]

The Geometry of Supersymmetry - A Concise Introduction

in Graduate Journal of Mathematics (in press)