[eng] Irrigation water demand estimation - In this paper, we considéra risk adverse farmer, facing sequential irrigation decisions under climatic uncertainty. In this complex framework, our goal is to estimate the irrigation water demand. The originality of this work lies, first, in the...

Both industry and firm characteristics influence the survival of a firm in an industry over time. Aging, size, structure are factors often discussed in the literature, but public intervention effects -through public quality labeling for example - may also have an effect that is examined here. We...

This paper proposes an iterative procedure for testing periods of technical progress and periods of technical regress. We apply this methodology to the French food industry.

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact on property values of agricultural pollution using alternative semiparametric hedonic price models. The proposed model specifications are made up of two parts: a partially linear component for house characteristics and a non (semi) parametric...

Stata par la pratique par Eric Cahuzac et Christophe Bontemps propose une introduction complète à l'usage de Stata en Français. S'appuyant sur des exemples clairs écrits dans un langage simple, cet ouvrage guide l'utilisateur au travers des différentes fonctionnalités de Stata 10....

In France, despite access to safe public drinking water, and in spite of its excessively high price compared to tap water, 42 % of the population still regularly drink bottled water. Using scanner data on French consumption combined with raw water quality and other environmental data, and using...

On propose dans cet article de mesurer, par une étude économétrique appropriée, l’impact des facteurs environnementaux, socioéconomiques et culturels sur la décision des ménages de boire (ou non) l’eau du robinet. L’originalité de notre approche réside d’une part, dans...

In the area of environmental analysis using hedonic price models, we investigate the performance of various nonparametric and semiparametric specifications. The proposed model specifications are made up of two parts: a linear component for house characteristics and a non-(semi)parametric...