This paper studies a dynamic game where each of two large blocs, of fossil fuel importers and exporters respectively, sets either taxes or quotas to exercise power in fossil-fuel markets. The main novel feature is the inclusion of a "fringe" of non- strategic (emerging and developing) countries...

Purpose: This paper is the first of its kind to look at first-year undergraduates in France. The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of holding down a job on the probability of students dropping out of higher education or passing their first year. Design/methodology/approach: Given...

[eng] Is there Cause for Concern over the Drop in Aquifer Levels ? . by Jean-Pierre Amigues, Pascal Favard and Michel Moreaux . This paper analyses the problems raised when managing continental aquifers replenished by the trickledown of surface water. These aquifers can be regarded as natural...

This research is a study of the differences in duration of waiting time between European and non-European households to obtain social housing, drawing on the housing survey carried out by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE, Paris, 2006). The idea here is to...

A partial equilibrium analysis shows that a pool of natural resources with constant unit costs of extraction has to be exploited in strict increasing cost order. Kemp and Long [1980] have shown that it is not necessarily the case in a general equilibrium framework. In a consumption-leisure...

This paper examines the link between pollution and income. The main purpose is to assess whether the introduction of income inequality in a Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) analysis can give new insights into the relationship between pollution and economic growth. The EKC hypothesis proposes...