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Chiara Canta, Pierre Pestieau et Emmanuel Thibault

vol. 61, n° 4, avril 2016, p. 755–785

The rising level of long-term care (LTC) expenditures and their financing sources are likely to impact savings and capital accumulation and henceforth the pattern of growth. This paper studies how the joint interaction of the family, the market and the State influences capital accumulation in a...

Adrien Blanchet et Pierre Degond

vol. 163, n° 1, avril 2016, p. 41–60

We consider a finite number of particles characterised by their positions and velocities. At random times a randomly chosen particle, the follower, adopts the velocity of another particle, the leader. The follower chooses its leader according to the proximity rank of the latter with respect to the...

Christian Gollier

vol. 30, avril 2016

Philippe De Donder et John E. Roemer

vol. 18, « 1 », avril 2016, p. 85–96

We study how rich shareholders use their political influence to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Individuals differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity individuals also own shares in the productive sector and...

Arnaud Reynaud

vol. 74, avril 2016, p. 65–78

Xiaoxi Li, Marc Quincampoix et Jérôme Renault

vol. 36, n° 4, avril 2016, p. 2113–2132

We consider optimal control problems where the running cost of the trajectory is evaluated by a probability measure on R. As a particular case, we take the Cesàro average of the running cost over a fixed horizon. The limit of the value with Cesàro average when the horizon tends to infinity is...

Anna D’Annunzio et Pierfrancesco Reverberi

vol. 40, n° 4, avril 2016, p. 353–367

Stéphane Bonhomme, Koen Jochmans et Jean-Marc Robin

avril 2016, p. 540–563

Helmuth Cremer et Pierre Pestieau

n° 16-629, mars 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this...

Gary Biglaiser et Jacques Crémer

n° 16-630, mars 2016, révision novembre 2016

We study the dynamics of competition in a model with network effects, an incumbent and entry. We propose a new way of representing the strategic advantages of incumbency in a static model and embed it in a dynamic framework with heterogeneous consumers. We completely identify the conditions under...