Every year, riots cause a substantial number of fatalities in less-advanced countries. This paper explores the role of agricultural output shocks in explaining riots. Our theory predicts a negative relationship between the level of rioting and the deviation of the actual output from the average...

Allocating property rights on an open-access resource that has been freely exploited in the past is often problematic. In practice, involved agents typically rely on one of two competing principles to determine future allocation. The first principle, grandfathering, favors the status quo while...

The siting of public facilities such as prisons or waste disposal facilities typically faces rejection by local populations (the "NIMBY" syndrome, for Not In My BackYard). These public goods exhibit a private bad aspect creating an asymmetry: all involved communities benefit from their...

The management of natural commons is typically subject to threshold effects: past a certain agregate consumption level, the benefits of the commons will be lost for everybody. As dealing with the global climate illustrates, moreover, it is often impossible to locate an actual threshold with...

<TABLE> <TD> <img src="/images/publication/2011MO-01.jpg"></TD> <TD>Sous la direction de Marcelin Joanis et Luc Godbout <p> Si le Québec a été frappé moins durement qu'ailleurs par la dernière récession, il fait toujours face aux importants défis économiques qui se posaient avant la récession : la contraction prochaine du bassin de travailleurs...</p></td></td></table>

Sous la direction de Marcelin Joanis et Luc Godbout Si le Québec a été frappé moins durement qu'ailleurs par la dernière récession, il fait toujours face aux importants défis économiques qui se posaient avant la récession : la contraction prochaine du bassin de travailleurs potentiels,...

Most natural commons are subject to discontinuities and threshold effects, so their gradual depletion may result in a sudden irreversible loss of the associated ecological services. Yet, it is often impossible to locate these thresholds with certainty. We analyze this context using a variant of...