This paper investigates consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for two environmental attributes of a non-food agricultural product. We study individual preferences for roses associated with an eco-label and a carbon footprint using an economic experiment combining discrete choice...

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...

Ce travail constitue une première approche des aménités et de leur valorisation potentielle via les produits alimentaires. Plus exactement, il s’agit de savoir si la valeur accordée à un produit issu d’une région bénéficiant d'un environnement naturel typé est plus importante que...

Cet article présente une analyse de la différenciation des produits et services touristiques dans les espaces ruraux que nous appelons "différenciation cognitive". Il montre comment les cognitions environnementales sont à l’origine d’une interaction positive entre qualité de...

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...