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Cécile Aubert
n° 09-127, décembre 2009
We investigate the interactions between managers’ incentives to collude or compete, and incentives to exert effort. A manager privately chooses the competitive strategy of the firm, and his own effort to improve productivity; He may substitute collusion to effort to increase profits. High profit...
Klenio Barbosa
n° 09-128, décembre 2009
Low-powered contracts do not provide proper incentives to reduce cost; still empirical studies show that they are quite pervasive in public and private procurement. This paper argues that low-powered contracts arise due to a free-riding problem when the contractor enjoys economies of scale/scope...
Nicoletta Berardi
n° 09-129, décembre 2009
We develop a theoretical framework that considers the role played by moral hazard and the diversity of networks and cultures in the choice of hiring channel. Our model explains why either informal or formal hiring channels are preferred and either positive or negative wage differentials emerge for...
Antoine Bommier et Stéphane Zuber
n° 09-132, décembre 2009
The Pareto principle is often viewed as a mild requirement compatible with a variety of value judgements. In particular, it is generally thought that it can accommodate different degress of inequality aversion. We show that this is generally not true in time consistent intertemporal models where...
Sandrine Casanova
n° 09-133, décembre 2009
Estimating the cumulative distribution function in survey sampling is of interest on the population but also on a sub-population (domain). However, in most practical applications, sample sizes in the domains are not large enough to produce sufficiently precise estimators. Therefore, we propose new...
François Cochard, Hélène Couprie et Astrid Hopfensitz
n° 09-134, décembre 2009
Models of household economics require an understanding of economic interactions in families. Social ties, repetition and reduced strategic uncertainty make social dilemmas in couples a very special case that needs to be empirically studied. In this paper we present results from a large economic...
Céline Nauges et Caroline Van Den Berg
n° 09-139, décembre 2009
Using household data from surveys made in Sri Lanka, we provide original results regarding i) factors driving the perception of risk related to water consumption and ii) the role of perceived risk on household’s decision to treat water before drinking it. First, we find evidence that water...
Fabian Bergès et Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache
n° 09-130, décembre 2009
Branded food manufacturers vindicate the use of excess production capacities (idle otherwise) to justify their production of retailers' brands. We study the distributor and food manufacturer's private label strategy for production within a framework featuring endogenous store brand quality,...
Marie-Françoise Calmette
Agence Française de Développement, 2009
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Hélène Hubert, Michel Moreaux et Linda Nøstbakken
2009
