nep-des New Economics Papers
on Economic Design
Issue of 2024‒03‒11
three papers chosen by
Guillaume Haeringer, Baruch College and

  1. Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income By Elise Aerts;; Ive Marx;; Gerlinde Verbist;
  2. Micromobility and Public Transit Environmental Design Integration By Ferguson, Beth; Sanguinetti, Angela
  3. Researcher-innovator posture to design artefact in the Anthropocene area By Florence Jacob; Mathias Guerineau; Julien Kleszczowski
  1. By: Elise Aerts;; Ive Marx;; Gerlinde Verbist;
    Abstract: Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and where it is implemented. Implementing a BI requires far more choices than advocates seem to realize. The level at which the BI is set matters, but its exact specification matters even more. Which parts of the existing tax-benefit system are maintained, and which parts are abolished, modified or replaced? The impact of a BI, be it a low or a high one, thus strongly depends on the characteristics of the system that it is (partially) replacing or complementing, as well as the socio-economic context in which it is introduced. Some versions of BI could potentially help to reduce poverty but always at a significant cost and with substantial sections of the population incurring significant losses, which matters for political feasibility. A partial basic income complementing existing provisions appears to make more potential sense than a full basic income replacing them. The simplicity of BI, however, tends to be vastly overstated.
    Date: 2023–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hdl:wpaper:2303&r=des
  2. By: Ferguson, Beth; Sanguinetti, Angela
    Abstract: Micromobility—transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters—has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, traffic congestion, and air pollution, particularly when it is used to replace private vehicle use and for first- and last-mile travel in conjunction with public transit. The design of the built environment in and around public transit stations plays a key role in the integration of public transit and micromobility. The San Francisco Bay Area is a potential testbed for innovative and adaptive transit station design features that support micromobility, since it has relatively high public transit and shared micromobility usage, as well as high micromobility usage rates for trips to and from transit. The region’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) heavy rail stations are in the operation zone of seven shared micromobility operators.
    Keywords: Architecture
    Date: 2024–02–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt4tr5c0dm&r=des
  3. By: Florence Jacob (Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Mathias Guerineau (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Julien Kleszczowski (LUMEN - Lille University Management Lab - ULR 4999 - Université de Lille)
    Abstract: This article considers how management researchers can produce truly disruptive management tools in a way that is designed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene. We present three arguments that concretely allow the transformation of the research process: to redefine problems encountered by actors in demand of the tool by going beyond the needs of the users of the tool including non-users, to integrate theoretical frameworks integrating the systemic and complex dimension of ecology, and finally to change how the action is evaluated through the prism of all the stakeholders (human and non-human) of the earth system.
    Abstract: Cet article propose d'envisager que le chercheur en gestion produise des outils de gestion réellement disruptifs dans une posture engagée pour relever les défis de l'Anthropocène. Nous présentons trois propositions qui permettent, de manière concrète, de transformer les démarches de recherche engagée : redéfinir les problèmes rencontrés par les acteurs en demande de l'outil en dépassant les besoins uniquement centrés sur les usagers directs de l'outil, utiliser des cadres théoriques intégrant la dimension systémique et complexe de l'écologie et enfin changer la façon d'évaluer l'action au prisme de l'ensemble des parties prenantes (humaines et non-humaines) du système Terre.
    Keywords: Artefact Anthropocène Méthodologie de recherche Design Science recherche-action Artefact Anthropocene research strategy design science action research, Artefact, Anthropocène, Méthodologie de recherche, Design Science, recherche-action Artefact, Anthropocene, research strategy, design science, action research
    Date: 2023–05–30
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04435113&r=des
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