This paper builds a typology of impact pathways generated by an agricultural public research organization, namely INRA (National Institute for Agronomic Research). The typology is built by codifying 32 standardized case studies providing rich qualitative information about the impact pathway and...

Cet article se fonde sur une expérience de recherche-intervention conduite au sein de l’INRA et dont l’objectif était de concevoir et expérimenter une approche d’évaluation des impacts socio-économiques de la recherche. Fondée sur une conception de l’impact de la recherche comme...

Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) has received recent renewed impetus and interest in most OECD countries although the academic literature pays little attention to its economic rationales. Since public procurement is being seen increasingly as an instrument of innovation policy, it is...

In this paper we propose a new method in experimental economics, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of public policy incentives aimed at altering consumer behaviors. We apply this method to wide-ranging policies on food prices, which use subsidies to increase the consumption of healthy...

The paper considers the external validity of the growing set of literature that uses laboratory auctions to reveal consumers' willingness to pay for consumer goods, when the concerned goods are sold in retailing shops through posted prices procedures. Here, the quality of the parallel between...

Double marginalization causes inefficiencies in vertical markets. This paper argues that such inefficiencies may be beneficial to final consumers in markets producing vertically differentiated goods. The rationale behind this result is that enhancing efficiency in high-quality supply chains...

In this paper we show that, in the presence of buyer and seller power, a monopolist can enter into a costly contractual relationship with a low-quality supplier with the sole intention of improving its bargaining position relative to a high-quality supplier, without ever selling the good...