This study evaluates the impact of fuel prices on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly registration of new private cars in France from 2003 to 2007. Detailed information on the car holder enables us to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers. We...

Depending on their causality, ground movements can be stated as natural disasters and insured by the French natural disasters insurance system. This article analyzes the inventoried claims and compensations from 1995 to 2006 and explains the limits of this approach. It assesses the ground...