We examine the efficiency, distributional, and environmental consequences of assigning spatial property rights to part of a spatially-connected natural resource while the remainder is competed for by an open access fringe. We refer to this as partial enclosure of the commons. We obtain sharp...

Au Brésil, les préoccupations environnementales sont croissantes du fait des impacts négatifs d’une croissance agricole accélérée sur l’environnement et les ressources naturelles. Face à ce contexte, la certification environnementale de divers produits issus de l’usage des terres...

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...

This paper examines strict Nash networks in the noncooperative directed flow model of Bala and Goyal (Econometrica 68(5):1181–1230, 2000) with partner heterogeneity (payoff of a player in a link depends on the identity of her link partner). We focus on the asymmetries with regard to the...

Au Brésil, les préoccupations environnementales sont croissantes du fait des impacts négatifs d’une croissance agricole accélérée sur l’environnement et les ressources naturelles. Face à ce contexte, la certification environnementale de divers produits issus de l’usage des terres...

A travers la problématique des ressources, ce travail questionne la finalité des activités économiques et des modes de production. Il propose une démarche socio-environnementale intégrée et pluri-disciplinaire pour, à travers les droits et les devoirs de l’homme, (1) préserver les...

Contract Theories and Franchising Franchising is an excellent field of application for contract theories. This paper aims at surveying the recent literature on franchise chains and contracts. It focuses on the choice of contractual terms (the « contractual design ») with an emphasis on...

This paper draws on the dynamic capabilities approach to explain the performance of franchised chains. This approach is a useful lens to understand why some chains are more likely to drive superior performance than others. Hence, using this theoretical lens, we explore why and how several...

We build a model of trade and location with two countries which differ with respect to their level of productivity. Public expenditures are shared between a subsidy to firms reducing the labor cost and another one to households. We show that the high-productivity country pays a lower net subsidy...