We use Moroccan data to study the determinants of international migrants’ remittances, testing the altruistic and welfare hypotheses. In particular, we analyze and assess what motivates migrants to send remittances back home. Our results lend support to the altruistic hypothesis suggesting...

The fundamentals of an exchange economy, the preferences of individuals, can be identified from the competitive equilibrium correspondence, which associates equilibrium prices of commodities to allocations of endowments; the argument extends to production economies. The essential step is the...

Superstitious beliefs influence a wide range of decisions and activities in the everyday life. Yet, superstition has received little attention in the consumer behaviour literature, which is surprising since superstitious behaviours are found in numerous related domains, such as sports (Schippers...

L’hypothèse de fonte des marchés financiers, à partir de 2006, si les nombreux Papy Boomers retraités désépargnent pour consommer plus, nous fait nous interroger sur les comportements d’accumulation de cette génération. Cet article propose de distinguer, à partir de cinq enquêtes...

Nous connaissons tous des personnes qui gardent un tas d'objets alors quelles n'en ont plus l'utilité. Elles déploient, pour les conserver, une infinité de stratégies : location d'espaces de rangement, accumulation de cartons au grenier comme à la cave, annexion du garage d'un proche ou des...

In January 2010, Haiti has been hit by the worst earthquake in its dramatic history. It was followed by an unprecedented international mobilization. Since then, a succession of natural disasters has struck the country (floods, epidemics, etc.). At the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of...

In this paper we extend the theory of precautionary saving to the case in which uncertainty is multidimensional and we develop a matrix-measure of multivariate prudence. Furthermore, we characterize comparative prudence, decreasing and increasing prudence, the effect of uncertainty on the...

Compulsive consumption is regarded as a global phenomenon that can adversely affect consumer well-being. Although the topic has been studied in different cultural settings, we have seen relatively little theory development and explanations of compulsive behaviour. Nearly all previous empirical...