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André Blais, Damien Bol, Sona Golder, Philipp Harfst, Jean-François Laslier, Laura Stephenson et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 17, n° 4, décembre 2016, p. 525–545
Many academics and commentators argue that Europe is suffering from a democratic deficit. An interesting proposal that has been put forward to address this problem is to elect some members of the European parliament in a pan-European district. In this article, we evaluate this proposal using an...
Alban Thomas et Vera Zaporozhets
2016, p. 1–22
Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau et Kerstin Roeder
vol. 70, 2016, p. 101–109
This paper studies the design of a social long-term care (LTC) insurance when altruism is two-sided. The laissez-faire solution is not efficient, unless there is perfect altruism. Under full information, the rst-best can be decentralized by a linear subsidy on informal aid, a linear tax on bequests...
Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão et Kerstin Roeder
vol. 50, décembre 2016, p. 258–267
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease in...
Alexandre Cornière (de) et Romain De Nijs
vol. 47, n° 1, Spring 2016, p. 48–72
An online platform makes a profit by auctioning an advertising slot that appears whenever a consumer visits its website. Several firms compete in the auction, and consumers differ in their preferences. Prior to the auction, the platform gathers data which is statistically correlated with consumers...
Jean-Pierre Amigues, Gilles Lafforgue et Michel Moreaux
n° 208-209, 2016, p. 39–55
Nous caractérisons les sentiers d’exploitation optimale de deux énergies primaires parfaitement substituables : une ressource non renouvelable carbonée et une ressource renouvelable non polluante. Ces ressources approvisionnent les besoins en énergie de deux secteurs qui se différencient par leur...
Lika Ba et Farid Gasmi
vol. 41, 2016, p. 1–30
The main goal of this study is to demonstrate the existence of a significant empirical link between infrastructure and financial sectors reforms the effects of which are reflected in infrastructure sectors performance. This paper reports on the findings of an exploration of this issue for the case...
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur et Pierre Pestieau
vol. 50, décembre 2016, p. 330–339
Vincent Réquillart, Louis-Georges Soler et Yu Zang
vol. 50, décembre 2016, p. 268–285
The goal of this paper is to better understand firms' strategic reactions to nutritional policies targeting food quality improvements and to derive optimal policies. We propose a model of product differentiation, taking into account the taste and health characteristics of products. We study how two...
Christian Gollier
vol. 92, n° 4, décembre 2016
