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Christian Gollier

December 12, 2015

Damian Tago, and Alban Thomas

December 10, 2015

Frédéric Cherbonnier

December 3, 2015

Céline Nauges

December 2, 2015

David Crainich, Louis Eeckhoudt, and James K. Hammitt

vol. 79, n. 3, November 2015, pp. 403–413

The relationship between willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce the probability of an adverse event and the degree of risk aversion is ambiguous. The ambiguity arises because paying for protection worsens the outcome in the event the adverse event occurs, which influences the expected marginal utility...

Philippe De Donder, and Pierre Pestieau

vol. 27, n. 3, November 2015, pp. 389–403

We provide an explanation for why estate taxation is surprisingly little used over the world, given the skewness of the estate distribution. Taxing estates implies meddling with intra-family decisions, which may be frown upon by many. At the same time, the concentration of estates means that a low...

Marion Desquilbet, Sylvette Monier-Dilhan, and Thomas Pomeon

n. 227, November 2015

Anna D’Annunzio, and Antonio Russo

vol. 40, November 2015, pp. 30–47

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a zero-price...

Edmond Baranes, and David Bardey

vol. 36, n. 5, November 2015

This article examines a model of competition between two types of health insurer: Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and nonintegrated insurers. HMOs vertically integrate health care providers and pay them at a competitive price, while nonintegrated health insurers work as indemnity plans and...

Van Huyen Do, Christine Thomas-Agnan, and Anne Vanhems

vol. 14, November 2015, pp. 412–438

The combination of several socio-economic data bases originating from different administrative sources collected on several different partitions of a geographic zone of interest into administrative units induces the so-called areal interpolation problem. This problem is that of allocating the data...