This article shows how experiments revealing information about food quality and safety can contribute to regulatory debates on food and health. After detailing the motivations of regulation for the food sector, we underline the limits of theoretical welfare analysis. Despite challenges from...

This paper focuses on the welfare effects of information computed from experimental methods eliciting willingness-to-pay. First, a theoretical model shows that the size of the welfare variation is related to the elasticity of the demand under the absence of information about a characteristic....

[fre] En France, la nouvelle Loi d'Orientation agricole votée en 1999 affirme la volonté politique de reconnaître la multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture et de subordonner l'octroi d'une fraction croissante des transferts publics au respect d'objectifs concernant l'environnement et l'emploi....