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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...

Olivier Faugeras et Ludger Rüschendorf

vol. 48, n° 1, 2017

Our purpose is both conceptual and practical. On the one hand, we discuss the question which properties are basic ingredients of a general conceptual notion of a multivariate quantile. We propose and argue that the object “quantile” should be defined as a Markov morphism which carries over similar...

Stéphane Caprice

vol. 12, n° 3, 2017, p. 480–513

This article examines (i) how retailers position private label products, (ii) why private labels are sold in some product categories but not in others, and why some national brand products may have difficulty in accessing retailers' shelves, (iii) why some private label products are positioned as "...

Simone Cuiabano

vol. 17, n° 2, 2017

The goal of this paper is to analyze the long-run equilibrium exchange rate in Latin America and Asia countries using the monetary model described in Obstfeld and Rogoff (1996) to evaluate the exchange rate gap between the regions. I use panel cointegration tests to verify the existence of panel...

Shrinivas Badiger, Jacques Eric Bergez, Delphine Leenhardt, Marion Robert, Laurent Ruiz, Muddu Sekhar, Alban Thomas et M. Willaume

vol. 9, n° 51, 2017, p. 1–21

Farmers’ production decisions and agricultural practices directly and indirectly influence the quantity and quality of natural resources, some being depleted common resources such as groundwater. Representing farming systems while accounting for their flexibility is needed to evaluate targeted,...

William Gehrlein, Michel Le Breton et Dominique Lepelley

vol. 49, 2017, p. 315–321

The purpose of this note is to compute the probability of logrolling for three different probabilistic cultures. The primary finding is that the restriction of preferences to be in accord with the condition of separable preferences creates enough additional structure among voters' preference...