The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...

[ger] Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen des zinslosen Darlehens . . Um die Auswirkungen des zinslosen Darlehens auf die Nachfrage nach Wohnungseigentum zu messen, wird ein Modell mit Daten aus den Insee-Erhebungen Wohnen . 1996 und Vermögen 1997 geschätzt (diese Schätzung bezieht sich auf die...

This article analyses some effects of the French upfront subsidy to homeownership called Prêt à Taux Zéro (PTZ) introduced in 1996. The PTZ can be viewed as a downpayment subsidy to low and middle-income first-time buyers. The effects of the subsidy are modelled by simulating the introduction...

"Most countries do not use one single type of housing subsidy but combine many of them. Le Blanc provides operational criteria that allow evaluation of systems of housing subsidies, both at the individual program level and at the aggregate (country) level. He examines the public finance...

[eng] Female Labour Supply and Child Care . . We estimate a model of the decision by mothers of young children to use paid child care services and to work (participation and working hours : half-time , 80 %, full-time ), using French microeconomic data . Our research suggests that the cost of...

[fre] Les effets de l'existence du parc HLM sur le profil de consommation des ménages.. Les HLM représentent une part de plus en plusi importante de l'ensemble du parc locatif. Ils se distinguent par des logements plus grands et plus récents, à dominante urbaine plus accentuée, et...

[fre] Comment les aides au logement affectent-elles les loyers? . . Près d'un locataire sur deux perçoit en France une aide au logement. La théorie économique prédit que l'introduction d'une aide personnelle au locataire peut avoir pour effet d'augmenter la demande agrégée de logement, et...

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

Spatial wage disparities can result from spatial differences in the skill composition of the workforce, in non-human endowments, and in local interactions. To distinguish between these explanations, we estimate a model of wage determination across local labour markets using a very large panel of...

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...