This paper considers the welfare and policy implications of a merger between environment fi rms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways. First, we show...

L’Indice de Développement de l’Economie Rurale (IDER) qui est de 0,310 montre que les territoires ruraux de la wilaya de Bejaïa peinent à sortir de leur sous-développement. Bien qu’elle renferme de nombreuses ressources génériques (matières premières, énergie, épargne privée...

We study the impact of falling international trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Each country is formed by two regions between which labor is mobile, whereas there is no international mobility. Goods can be...

Pastoralism has been discredited for a long time on the grounds that it would harm the agrarian activities. Today, it is generally acknowledged that pastoralism has positive qualities due to the grazing by herds of spontaneous resources., Pastoralism has become a matter of public interest...

Ce texte analyse la diversite des evolutions du secteur agricole dans le developpement economique des regions meridionales de la CEE et des pays mediterraneens associes a la CEE. La situation d'excedents pour certains produits, la concurrence accrue a l'interieur de la CEE elargie et sur les...

The public-health community views the mandatory labelling and taxation of fat as promising tools to control the growth of food-related chronic disease. This paper is the first to propose an ex ante evaluation of these two policy options in an oligopolistic setting with differentiated products...

This chapter aims to introduce the setting up of an evaluation tool assessing the sustainability of activity systems and supporting farming households' projects at the establishment stage. This chapter analyses three methods used to appreciate the farm sustainability and identifies not only...

La concurrence entre formes artisanales et industrielles de production alimentaire se pose de plus en plus en termes de strategies de produits et de comportements sur les marches. Dans le cas de la boulangerie et de la boucherie, les innovations techniques et commerciales ont induit depuis 1965...