Cet article prolonge le modele homeostatique traditionnel en incorporant le role des decisions familiales concernant les migrations de tel ou tel de ses membres. A partir de donnees genealogiques reconstituant l'evolution demographique, economique et patrimoniale de 44 familles francaises, mises...

We address the issue of social distribution of an aggregate risk (on agricultural export price), in a macro-economic perspective. Individual incomes in representative social groups are computed as a function of export prices, which are assumed to be stochastic, using an applied general...

This paper analyzes how political institutions, wealth distribution and economic activities affect each other during the process of development. A simple general equilibrium model of rent-seeking political elites with two productive sectors (modern and traditional) is presented.

We consider an economy where property rights are necessary to ensure sufficient rewards to ex ante investments. Because enforcement of property rights influences the ex post distribution of rents there is room for corruption. We characterize the optimal organization of society and the optimal...