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David Bardey, Helmuth Cremer et Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
vol. 137, mai 2016, p. 28–37
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies two...
Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley et Hatem Smaoui
vol. 64, mai 2016, p. 11–22
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote under the majority rule for a class of random electorate models encompassing the celebrated Impartial Culture (IC) and Impartial Anonymous Culture (IAC) models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation...
Alban Thomas
vol. 12, mai 2016
Vehicle exhaust fumes are a major cause of air pollution in developing world megacities, such as Cairo. Egyptian authorities have taken measures to reduce emission rates for existing vehicles and change relative user costs using policies that are consistent with research findings on the appropriate...
Thomas Filleron, D. Florence, Eve Leconte et Serge Somda
vol. 34, n° 5, mai 2016, p. 244–245
Joao Correia da silva, Joana Pinho et Hélder Vasconcelos
vol. 118, n° 1, mai 2016, p. 1–34
This paper studies the sustainability of collusion in markets where growth is not restricted to occur at a constant rate and may trigger future entry. Entry typically occurs later along the punishment path than along the collusive path (since profits are lower in the former case), and may not even...
Emmanuelle Auriol
Armand Colin, mai 2016, 224 pages
Pour répondre à cette question, il faut avoir exploré toutes les pistes. La légalisation de ces marchés interdits en est une. L’État propose une offre légale qui se substitue à celle des réseaux mafieux. Les prix doivent être suffisamment bas pour pousser les trafiquants hors du marché. On se...
Jean Tirole
Paris, France : PUF, mai 2016, 640 pages
Avec ce premier livre en français destiné à un large public, le prix Nobel d’économie 2014 nous invite à partager sa passion pour cette discipline. Il défend une certaine vision de l’économie, science qui croise la théorie et les faits au service du bien commun, et de l’économiste, chercheur et...
Nicolas Werquin (Toulouse School of Economics)
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, 26–27 mai 2016, salle MS 001
I study nonlinear income taxation in a dynamic environment where individual labor supply is subject to frictions, e.g., hours constraints within firms. Specifically, consistent with the empirical evidence, agents incur a fixed cost of adjusting their hours of work in response to wage or tax changes...
Bas Jacobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute)
Felix Bierbrauer (University of Cologne)