Recherche avancée

Emmanuelle Auriol et Tina Soreide

vol. 50, 2017, p. 36–49

With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced debarment of suppliers found guilty of corrup- tion and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the market effects of debarment on public procurement. Debarment is found to make...

Jean-François Bonnefon, Wim De Neys et Astrid Hopfensitz

vol. 26, 2017, p. 276–281

Humans are willing to cooperate with each other for mutual benefit—and to accept the risk of exploitation. To avoid collaborating with the wrong person, people sometimes attempt to detect cooperativeness in others’ body language, facial features, and facial expressions. But how reliable are these...

David Bardey et Giancarlo Buitrago

vol. 56, décembre 2017, p. 317–329

The aim of this article is to estimate the type of selection that exists in the voluntary health insurance market in Colombia where the compulsory coverage is implemented through a managed care competition. We build a panel database that combines individuals’ information from the Ministry of Health...

K.J. Martijn Cremers, Saura Masconale et Simone M. Sepe

vol. 96, n° 2, décembre 2017

Simone M. Sepe

vol. 101, n° 4, 2017, p. 1377–1455

K.J. Martijn Cremers, Saura Masconale et Simone M. Sepe

vol. 94, n° 2, 2017

Stephen F. Hamilton et Vincent Réquillart

vol. 26, n° 12, décembre 2017, p. 1637–1643

There has been surprisingly little research to date on the supply-side role of food manufacturers on equilibrium health outcomes for consumers. In this letter we consider an oligopoly model in which food processors choose the health composition of manufactured food. We show that price competition...

Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Bennett Shaywitz, John Holahan, Karen Marchione, Reissa Michaels, Sally Shaywitz et James K. Hammitt

vol. 8, n° 1, 2017, p. 24–48

While much is known about dyslexia in school-age children and adolescents, less is known about its effects on quality of life in adults. Using data from the Connecticut Longitudinal Study we provide the first estimates of the monetary value of improving reading, speaking, and cognitive skills to...

Jean-François Bonnefon et Sylvie Borau

vol. 36, n° 3, 2017, p. 457–476

Advertisements often display ideal female bodies which create unattainable standards of beauty, generating body anxiety and disorders in female viewers. Accordingly, public health concerns would encourage the use of natural, unedited models in advertisements. However, the advertising performance of...

Philippe De Donder et Maria Gallego

2017

We survey the literature on the positioning of political parties in uni - and multidimensional policy spaces. We keep throughout the survey the assumption that there is an exogenous number of parties who commit to implement their policy proposals once elected. The survey stresses the importance of...