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12 février 2012
Jean-Pierre Amigues et Michel Moreaux
n° 12-276, 8 février 2012
Pollution accumulation may result in more or less severe losses of natural self-cleaning capacities. We study a polluting resource management problem submitted to a potential shift from a high to a low pollution self-regeneration regime be crossed some critical pollution stock threshold. We first...
8 février 2012
6 février 2012
Jean Tirole
2 février 2012
Augustin Landier et David Thesmar
1 février 2012
Christophe Bontemps, Céline Nauges, Vincent Réquillart et Michel Simioni
n° 12-275, janvier 2012
The purpose of this article is to assess whether food safety regulations imposed by the European Union in the 2000s may have induced a slow-down in the productivity of firms in the food processing sector. The impact of regulations on costs and productivity has seldom been studied. This article...
James K. Hammitt, Henry A. Roman, David M. Stieb et Tyra L. Walsh
n° 12-290, janvier 2012
The monetized value of avoided premature mortality typically dominates the calculated benefits of air pollution regulations; therefore, characterization of the uncertainty surrounding these estimates is key to good policymaking. Formal expert judgment elicitation methods are one means of...
Jean-Pierre Amigues, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Gilles Lafforgue et Michel Moreaux
n° 12-278, janvier 2012
Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts et Zhichun Jenny Ying
janvier 2012
The frequency of working from home has been rising rapidly in the US, with over 10% of the work-force now regularly home working. But there is skepticism over the effectiveness of this, highlighted by phrases like “shirking from home”. We report the results of the first randomized experiment on...
