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Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram et Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
n° 18-919, mai 2018
This paper studies vertical integration of a retailer and an operator in the e-commerce sector. It shows first that the comparison between independent oligopoly and integrated monopoly involves a tradeoff between competition and double marginalization which will have the opposite effect. With...
Thuy Do Thi Thuy, Quang Dung Nguyen, Huy Nguyen Van, Christine Thomas-Agnan et Thi-Huong Trinh
n° 18-920, mai 2018
Vietnam launched the national Expanded Program on Immunization in 1981. Since then, this program has contributed signi cantly to the improvement of child health and to the reduction of child mortality rate. Despite of the fact that the coverage of the national EPI keeps expanding, the number of...
Ty Beal, Tuyen Le Danh, Duy Son Nguyen, Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan et Thi-Huong Trinh
n° 18-921, mai 2018
Olivier Faugeras et Ludger Rüschendorf
n° 18-922, mai 2018
The main aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of risk excess measure, to analyze its properties and to describe some basic construction methods. To compare the risk excess of one distribution Q w.r.t. a given risk distribution P, we propose to apply the concept of hemi-metric on the space...
Philippe De Donder, Frank Rodriguez et Soterios Soteri
n° 18-923, mai 2018
Chiara Canta et Helmuth Cremer
n° 18-924, mai 2018, révision novembre 2019
We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...
Branko Boskovic, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Martino Pelli et Anna Risch
n° 18-925, mai 2018
Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Use of fuelwood in cooking is a leading cause of indoor air pollution. Using household data from India, we show that households located farther away from the forest spend more time collecting....
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Hélène Hubert et Beyza Ural Marchand
n° 18-926, mai 2018
More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...
Michael Becher
n° 18-945, mai 2018
There is striking variation across parliamentary democracies in the power of prime ministers to employ two prominent procedures to resolve legislative conflict: the vote of confidence and the dissolution of parliament. While previous contributions in comparative politics have investigated each of...
n° 885, mai 2018
