Les aménités environnementales sont une source d'agrément et d'attraction pour les touristes et les visiteurs d'un territoire dont la spécificité est liée à des ressources naturelles de qualité. Mais comme l'accès à ces aménités est gratuit (bien publics, ni rivaux, ni exclusifs),...

L’agriculture fait face à de nombreux enjeux à la fois réglementaires, économiques ou agronomiques. Pour y répondre les agronomes conçoivent des innovations agroécologiques de type systémique qui permettent de concilier la protection de l’environnement et les enjeux de productivité....

Volatility in farm income represents a major challenge for farm management and for the design of public policies. This paper measures the extent to which risk management tools, especially direct payments and crop insurance, can significantly reduce crop income volatility in France and in Italy....

According to the so-called ‘self-licensing effect’, committing to a virtuous act in a preceding choice may lead to behave less virtuously in the succeeding decision. Consequently, well-intentioned policies can lead to overall counter-productive effects by licensing people to behave...

Ce travail analyse la place respective des coopérations en R&D subventionnées versus non subventionnées dans les stratégies d’accords technologiques des entreprises. Nous avançons que les ressources additionnelles apportées par les subventions gouvernementales favorisent la création...

Public procurement of innovation (PPI) has recently gained a renewed impetus and interest in most OECD countries as well as in the academic literature. A number of scholarly typologies of PPI instruments has been elaborated to understand better their nature and impacts. However, no unified...

The evolution of private labels (PLs) can be understood in terms of a strategy adopted by the retail industry with the aim of competing with national brands (NBs). In the 1990s, this strategy led to the development of ‘me too’ products, which currently represent the largest share of...

The article adds empirical content to transaction costs concepts by analyzing the design and implementation of the first publicly listed company in Australia, Earth Sanctuaries Limited, devoted to protecting biodiversity. The venture was successful on some ecological criteria, but ultimately...

Background. This article explores the causal effect of context on players’ behavior by using a game based on Cooperative Game Theory (CGT) modified into a coordination experiment. Aims. This article has two aims: first, to suggest an analytical framework focusing on four attributes...

This paper uses a conditional–convergence econometric model to investigate whether cohesion policy affects European economies. Its main contribution is to consider both spatial and temporal dynamics in assessing the impact of European cohesion policy. Econometric estimations rely on a...