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Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba et Marco Pariguana
n° 16-661, juin 2016, révision mai 2017
We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly increase the probability of selecting vocational schools...
Stefan Ambec et Lars Ehlers
vol. 126, n° 593, juin 2016, p. 884–906
We consider the problem of regulating an economy with environmental pollution. We examine the distributional impact of the polluter-pays principle which requires that any agent compensates all other agents for the damages caused by his or her (pollution) emissions. With constant marginal damages we...
Marion Desquilbet et Markus Hermann
Ottawa : Canadian Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Society, vol. 64, n° 2, juin 2016, p. 253–288
Nous analysons la politique optimale d'un refuge variable dans le temps afin de gérer la résistance d'insectes nuisibles face aux semences Bt dans le cadre d'un modèle à horizon fini et en temps discret. Nous identifions de manière analytique les effets intertemporels des zones de refuge sur la...
Maria A. García-Valiñas, S. Kurz et Vera Zaporozhets
Elsevier, vol. 43, juin 2016, p. 57–70
We examine the determinants of the EU budget expenditures allocation among different countries. Following previous literature, we consider two alternative explanations for the EU budget distribution: political power vs. 'needs view'. Taking the original data set (1976-2001) from Kauppi and Widgren...
Raouf Boucekkine, Fabien Prieur et Klarizze Puzon
Elsevier, vol. 85, juin 2016, p. 188–207
We consider a resource-dependent economy initially ruled by the elite. The transition from the autocratic to a more democratic regime takes place only if the citizens decide to revolt against the elite. The occurrence of a revolution primarily depends on the autocratic regime vulnerability and the...
Ernesto Pasten et Raphael Schoenle
vol. 80, juin 2016, p. 1–16
Patrick Fève et Mario Pietrunti
Elsevier, vol. 85, juin 2016, p. 144–164
This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in a setting in which private agents receive noisy signals about future shocks to government expenditures. We show how to empirically identify the relative weight of news and noise shocks to government spending and compute the level...
David Bardey et Giancarlo Buitrago
n° 77, juin 2016, p. 231–262
James K. Hammitt, Didier Raboisson, Damian Tago et Alban Thomas
vol. 11, n° 6, juin 2016
One of the main strategies to control the spread of infectious animal diseases is the implementation of movement restrictions. This paper shows a loss in efficiency of the movement restriction policy (MRP) when behavioral responses of farmers are taken into account. Incorporating the strategic...
Xavier Irz, Pascal Leroy, Vincent Réquillart et Louis-Georges Soler
Convenience, taste, and prices are the main determinants of food choices. Complying with dietary recommendations therefore imposes a “taste cost” on consumers, potentially hindering adoption of those recommendations. The study presents and applies a new methodology, based on economic theory, to...
