Cet article présente les résultats de recherches en économie expérimentale visant à mesurer les propensions à payer d'un échantillon de consommateurs français pour des yaourts fonctionnels. Nous mesurons l'impact de l'information concernant les caractéristiques fonctionnelles des...

Cet article présente les résultats de recherches en économie expérimentale visant à mesurer les propensions d'un échantillon de consommateurs français à payer pour des yaourts fonctionnels. Les auteurs mesurent l'impact de l'information concernant les caractéristiques fonctionnelles des...

"Food products have diversified with industry globalization. To market functional foods efficiently, food managers must gauge cross-cultural variance of functional food acceptance. Expanding on previous research, we investigate young consumers' acceptance of functional foods. Data collected in...

On March 20, 1996, a day known as Black Wednesday to the British beef industry, the British Secretary of State of Health announced that a possible link existed between BSE and the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human variant of mad cow. Seven years later, a somewhat comparable fate struck...

[eng] This paper presents an experimental investigation of the effects of a demand-response mechanism on the efficiency of competitive wholesale electric-power markets. Under most electricity deregulation , attention has initially and exclusively been placed on the supply side of the industry....

Competition among producers within an integrated electricity system is impeded by any limited transmission capacity there may be at its borders. Two alternative market mechanisms have recently been designed to organize the allocation of scarce transmission capacity at cross-border level : (i)...

Competition among producers within an integrated electricity system is impeded by any limited transmission capacity there may be at its borders. Two alternative market mechanisms have recently been designed to organize the allocation of scarce transmission capacity at cross-border level: (i) the...

We examine investment incentives and market power in an experimental market. We characterize market power as the strategic interdependence of subjects' investment decisions and output decisions. The market is designed so that investment and output decisions can be jointly characterized as...

This paper assesses the contribution of laboratory experiments to the economics of design applied to the electricity industry. The analysis is dedicated to wholesale markets, and reviews the results accumulated to date concerning both the general architecture of power markets and the very...