Cet article propose un panorama critique de la litterature empirique, recente ou plus ancienne, consacree a l'hypothese d'alea moral, selon laquelle une couverture maladie plus complete conduirait a davantage de depenses.

This paper studies optimality in dynamic stochastic economies with finitely lived agents. In this set up, an agent's utility level depends on the date at which it is evaluated, and on the available information at that date. A family of Pareto optimality concepts may be defined accordingly, with...

This paper discusses experimental design from an efficiency viewpoint. We interpret the design of social experiments as an economic intertemporal consumpion problem, as opposed to a statistical variance minimization problem, and contrast the difference between Pareto optimal sample size and...