The situation regarding the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services is now critical. Consequently, environmental targets have been determined and environmental legislations at every level tend to be more demanding. The result at local scale is that land planners have to take more rigorous...

This paper focuses on modelling and estimating the starting point bias in closed-ended follow-up questions, where several bids are presented successively, depending on previous answers. Although the contingent valuation literature took off in the last decade, there is only one study modelling...

[eng] To assess how a public decision can affect citizens’ interests, we need to estimate individual preferences. Economists usually assess individual preference through a market decision. Most often, however, public decisions have an impact on non-market goods. Without a market to refer to,...

[fre] Du point de vue du décideur public, une politique de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique se justifie si les bénéfices engendrés sont supérieurs aux coûts. La plupart des études évalue les bénéfices d'une amélioration de la qualité de l'air en termes de coûts sanitaires...

We investigate experimentally whether higher trust leads to increased performance by relying on simple trust games. Our results show that trust and performance are positively related but not as strong as suggested in the investment game. As a side result, we observe that the rewards of the...

We investigate experimentally whether higher trust leads to increased performance by relying on simple trust games. Our results show that trust and performance are positively related but not as strongly as suggested in the investment game. As a side result, we observe that the rewards of the...

This paper reviews the different methods that have been used for measuring health costs. Since the cost of illness method captures only the "social cost" (medical expenses and loss of income), we recommend that it be used in conjunction with contingent valuation because the latter yields the...