En quoi l'absence d'experience professionnelle des debutants est-elle responsable de leurs difficultes d'insertion professionnelle? Imputer au manque d'experience les difficultes d'insertion des jeunes est a la fois un faux et un vrai probleme. Apres avoir place la demande d'experience dans un...

This paper presents the first evidence linking directly household consumption profiles to the widely studied institution of sharecropping in developing countries. On the one hand, the theoretical rationale for sharecropping often calls for its risk sharing properties. On the other hand empirical...

The existence of cartels, collusion and heterogeneity across firms is known to introduce some asymmetry in bidding games. A major difficulty when considering asymmetric auctions is that the equilibrium strategies are solutions of an intractable system of differential equations. This paper...

The objective of this project is to develop complementary modelling tools able to simulate the impact of alternative policy scenarios for the dairy sector over the medium term. Because the analysis of the European Union (EU) dairy policy in the future strogly depends on the evolution of the...

We show that a private label is an indirect mean to contract on quality in a vertical structure, and is signed by a downstream firm only when its bargaining power is high. When its bargaining power decreases, sharing the fixed cost of quality in a private label with the upstream firm is not...

The role of grading is to disclose the quality of individual units of output. Each firm produces high and low quality units in different proportions. Quality specification is a choice variable and, all producers have access to the same technology. The paper finds that greater access to grading,...

We consider the combine use of environmental taxation and technological standards of abatement. While it is not necessary to regulate technology adoption under complete information, we show that the environmental agency has to impose a technological standard when monitoring emissions is costly...

La concentration industrielle n'a cessé d'augmenter ces vingt dernières années. Cette concentration est présente autant chez les producteurs que chez les distributeurs. Par conséquent, analyser le pouvoir de marché est devenu primordial. La mesure du pouvoir de marché nécessite l'analyse...

This paper aims to provide a consistent empirical methodology for investigating the level of Minimum Efficient Scale (MES) in a single product industry, through the assessment of relative productive performance. Two deterministic approaches are used to evaluate firm-level technical efficiency :...

This paper analyzes the demand and cost structure of the french market of academic journals, taking into account its intermediary role between researchers, who are both producers and consumers of knowledge. This two sidedness feature will echoes similar problems already observed in electronic...