Weather variability can threaten French suckler cow farms which rely on rather extensive forage production. However, flexibility of the production system can help farmer to face crop production shocks. This study aims at assessing how crop yield shocks impact on farms outcomes when adaptive...

We develop a dynamic data-consistent method to estimate agricultural land use choices at a disaggregate (district) level, using more aggregate (regional-level) data. The disaggregation procedure consists of two steps. First, we estimate a dynamic model of land use at the regional level, then we...

This paper provides a framework that aims at distinguishing the technological economies of vertical integration from the vertical economies resulting from market imperfections. To illustrate our analyze, we use consistent panel data econometric methods to estimate cost functions on a sample of...

In this article, we show how the degree of risk aversion, discounting, and preference for intertemporal substitution for a natural resource manager can be structurally estimated within a recursive utility framework. We focus on the management of a reservoir in California, and test the data for...

L’expertise scientifique collective « Agriculture et sécheresse » pilotée par l’INRA en 2006 a mis en évidence le manque de données quantitatives sur l’impact économique d’une sécheresse en France. En réponse, des économistes de l’INRA ont élaboré un couplage original entre...

Un peu plus de la moitié des communes françaises délègue actuellement la gestion du service de l'eau à des entreprises privées. L'incidence de ce choix du mode de gestion sur le coût du service et l'ampleur des différences observées entre modes de gestion privée ou publique sont des...

This article examines the factors influencing manufacturing firms’ water reuse decision and analyses whether the structure of intake water demand differs between firms that adopt water reuse practices and those which do not. The first stage of the estimation model involves a Probit analysis of...