Risk management has become a central issue in sanitary crises. Agro food firms have devised organizational responses to sanitary risks, usually implying better traceability. European Regulation 178/2002 established mandatory traceability. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the European...

This study examines the effect of road and railway noise on property prices. It uses the hedonic regression technique on a Swedish data set that contains information about both road and railway noise for each property, and finds that road noise has a larger negative impact on the property prices...

Ce numéro spécial traite principalement de l'origine des revenus dans les exploitations agricoles et plus, spécifiquement, de la pluriactivité. Il aborde la place de la femme en agriculture, la diversification des sources des revenus des ménages agricoles et la mutation des modèles de...

The research of a market power based on a strategy of raising rivals' costs can settle out of vertical integration strategy or suppliers control process. We show that some business companies (farmers, agro-food processing firms) related within an agro-food local productive system try to control...

This paper investigates the hypothesis that local politics has an impact on local taxation in the French public sector by using a cross-sectional dataset on departments in 1999. Political variables are included in a tax-setting equation to provide empirical evidence whether local governments in...

We study a continuous-time principal-agent model in which a risk-neutral agent with limited liability must exert unobservable effort to reduce the likelihood of large but relatively infrequent losses. Firm size can be decreased at no cost or increased subject to adjustment costs. In the optimal...

Entretien avec Fabrice Etilé, auteur de l'ouvrage "Obésité : santé publique et populisme alimentaire" paru aux Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2013, 124 pages.

The deforestation factors at a global level have been widely studied in the empirical economic literature. However, the high heterogeneity among countries considerably limits the overall significance of the results. Using quantile approach, we show thatsome major deforestation factors are more...