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...

The 2008 food crisis has challenged the political legitimacy and economic efficiency of the liberalization of international agricultural trade. An alternative vision defended by the food sovereignty movement is that long-term food security cannot rely on dependency on food imports, but must be...

Empirical demand systems that do not impose unreasonable restrictions on preferences are typically non-linear. We show, however, that all popular systems possess the property of conditional linearity. A computationally attractive iterated linear least squares estimator (ILLE) is proposed for...

We study the welfare-theoretic consequences of diverging social and private time-preference rates and time-to-build for the transition to a low-carbon energy industry. We show that time-to-build, a prevalent characteristic of capital accumulation in the energy sector, amplifies the distortion...

We provide a new experimental investigation of the neutrality theorem of Warr (1983), according to which “when a single public good is provided at positive levels by private individuals, its provision is unaffected by a redistribution of income". Our experimental design differs from Chan...

Cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur les fondements de l’économie rurale en intégrant les composantes sociétales de la vie rurale (évolution de l’emploi rural, des habitants, des services, des besoins, de l’environnement…). Il traite aussi des dynamiques territoriales de...