We investigate the conditions under which an inequality averse and additively separable welfarist constitution maker would always choose to set up a progressive equalization payment scheme in a federation with local public goods. A progressive equalization payment scheme is defined as a list of...

This paper presents an overlapping generations model of environmental externalities with a depollution technology. each agent concerned by the environmental degradation can volutary contribute in order to reduce it. Contributing to the environmental quality means financing depollution activities...

Cet article presente les principaux resultats d'une mise en oeuvre critique de la methode d'evaluation contingente, realisee dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche engage par le GIP-hydrosystemes en 19995. Il s'appuie sur une enquete d'evaluation contingente menee aupres d'un certain type...

Lorsque le question de valorisation utilisee dans la methode d'evaluation contingente prend la forme d'une question fermee, le modele econometrique adequat est un modele a choix binaire. Dans cet article, nous presentons un modele a choix binaire tenant compte d'une heterogeneite par groupes de...

The special issue of Annales d'Economie et Statistique presented here comes out of an international conference which was held in Marseilles (GREQAM) in June 1994 in connection with a programme of Commissariat General au Plan and with the support of ADRES. Sixty scholars, specialists in economic...

This paper provides a comparison of 12 OECD countries on the basis of the (multidimensional) inequality in both disposable income and access to public goods. The public goods considered, measured at the regional level, are infant mortality and pupils/teacher ratios at public schools. The...

We analyze the effect of a constant debt policy on capital accumulation and provide an indepth treatment of the dynamics in the economy of Diamond. We derive the conditions for avoiding a debt crisis in both the short-run and the long-run and provide geometrical tools to analyze the issue of...

This paper studies within a dynamical model how decentralized individuals happen to elect non-proprietary standard. The issue is coordination because the individual benefit of adoption depends on whether other agents elect to adopt the same standard. It shows that whenthere are increasing...

En considerant que l'une des caracteristiques des problemes environnementaux est le niveau d'incertitudequi les accompagne, nous proposons d'etudier les effets de ces incertitudes sur les comportements de choix de portefeuille et d'epargne des agents. Nous montrons alors qu'a l'equilibre...