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Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Sabine Duvaleix-Treguer, and Aude Ridier

vol. 345, 2015, pp. 7–28

Dale Whittington, Céline Nauges, David Fuente, and Xun Wu

vol. 34, 2015, pp. 70–81

It is conventional wisdom that poor households use less water than rich households, and intuition suggests that an increasing block tariff with a lifeline block will target subsidies to poor households. In this paper we provide a simple diagnostic tool that a water utility can use to estimate the...

Catarina Goulão

vol. 162, n. 1, 2015, pp. 135–157

We look at the consequences of allowing public health insurance (PuHI) to be voluntary when its coverage can be supplemented in the market. PuHI redistributes with respect to risk and income, and the market is affected by adverse selection. We argue that making PuHI voluntary does not lead to its...

Takuro Yamashita

vol. 82, n. 3, 2015, pp. 1223–1246

We study the mechanism design problem of guaranteeing desirable performances whenever agents are rational in the sense of not playing weakly dominated strategies. We first provide an upper bound for the best performance we can guarantee among all feasible mechanisms. The bound is represented as the...

Farid Gasmi, and Imène Laourari

2015, pp. 113–114

Emmanuelle Auriol, and Sara Biancini

vol. 29, n. 1, 2015, pp. 1–40

Power market integration is analyzed in a two-country model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If the generation costs between the two countries are too similar, negative business stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that, subsequent to integration, welfare decreases in both...

Guillaume Cheikbossian

vol. 125, n. 1, 2015, pp. 145–169

Dans cet article, nous étudions l'aptitude des membres d'un groupe à coopérer dans leurs activités de recherche de rentes afin de renforcer leurs position dans le conflit qui les opposent à une institution en place pour l'attribution d'une rente. Plus précisément, nous considérons un jeu répété...

Edhitt Cortez Linares, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Benjamin C. Trumble

2015

Xavier Irz, Pascal Leroy, Vincent Réquillart, and Louis-Georges Soler

vol. 39, 2015, pp. 188–201

The effect of consumers’ compliance with nutritional recommendations is uncertain because of potentially complex substitutions. To lift this uncertainty, we adapt a model of consumer behaviour under rationing to the case of linear nutritional constraints. Dietary adjustments are thus derived from...

Andrew Rhodes

vol. 82, 2015, pp. 360–390

We study the pricing behaviour of a multiproduct firm, when consumers must pay a search cost to learn its prices. Equilibrium prices are high, because consumers understand that visiting a store exposes them to a hold-up problem. However, a firm with more products charges lower prices, because it...