Dans cet article, pour etendre la theorie du consomateur a ses choix d'epargne et de placements, on utilise a la fois la theorie usuelle' celle des characteristiques et celle du rationnement quantitatif. On en deduit un systeme complet de demandes comprenant simultanement les quantites de biens...

The shares of the public sector in health insurance provision varies enormously from country to country. It is larger in more redistributive countries. We provide a possible theoretical explanation for these facts: a public health insurance system, financed by taxes, can be an efficient means of...

In this paper we show how the order of Linear Stochastic Dominance proposed by Gollier (1995) can be applied to situations with dependent risky assets.

In addition to showing the connection between parallel contingent and noncontingent risk comparison problems, we articulate a method for solving both kinds of problems using the "basis" approach. The basis approach has often been used implicitly, but we argue that there is value to making its...