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Marcel Boyer, Anne Catherine Faye, E. Gravel, and Rachidi Kotchoni

vol. 31, n. 1, September 2018, pp. 50–82

We analyze significant challenges and pitfalls faced by antitrust authorities in the implementation of competition policies particularly against naked cartels and propose measures principled in economic theory to circumvent these issues. We review leniency programs in different jurisdictions, the...

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Marc Ivaldi, and Catherine Muller-Vibes

vol. 29, n. 3, September 2018, pp. 363–376

In this paper, we empirically analyze the French print media market by modeling the existence of a reciprocal effect between the size of the readership and the amount of advertising. For this two-sided platform, we measure the cross-effects of advertising on the readership and periodical popularity...

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Lei Huang, He Ruoying, Qianqi Yang, Jun Chen, Ying Zhou, James K. Hammitt, Xi Lu, Jun Bi, and Yang Liu

vol. 120, September 2018, pp. 294–301

Gradual recovery of Chinese nuclear power industry and its increasingly important position in the world have created a need to understand how public attitudes towards nuclear power changed after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan (FNAJ). To address this need, we augment our previous work to...

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Thierry Magnac

vol. 69, n. 5, September 2018, pp. 683–708

On décrit, dans cette revue, les articles récents qui se sont attachés à construire des méthodes empiriques structurelles pour estimer les préférences des agents, étudiants et universités, ou élèves et écoles, qui participent à des mécanismes d'allocation centralisée. Ces recherches empiriques s'...

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M’hand Fares, Saqlain Raza, and Alban Thomas

vol. 53, n. 2, September 2018, pp. 367–395

Many quality signals—both private and public—have been used to foster the development of food quality in the agro-food markets: mainly brands and common certified labels. Previous research has typically focused on either brand or certified label efficiency independently, while in many instances...

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Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan, and Thi-Huong Trinh

September 2018

Vietnam is undergoing a nutritional transition like many middle-income countries. This paper proposes to highlight the socio-demographic drivers of this transition over the period 2004-2014. We implement a method of decomposition of between-year differences in economic outcomes recently proposed in...

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Andrea Enache, and Jean-Pierre Florens

vol. 131, September 2018, pp. 45–58

Regulation models are a special class of contract models that have received a lot of attention from economists in the last few decades. This continuous interest has been motivated by an increasing need in designing regulatory policies in a world where decentralization and delegation of public...

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Philippe Bontems, and Estelle Gozlan

August 2018

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Helmuth Cremer, and Pierre Pestieau

vol. 19, n. 3, August 2018, pp. 351–364

One of the pervasive problems with means-tested public long term care (LTC) programs is their inability to prevent individuals who could afford private long term services from taking advantage of public care. They often manage to elude the means-test net through "strategic impoverishment". We show...

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Jean Tirole, and Guillaume Plantin

vol. 108, n. 8, August 2018, pp. 2246–2276

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