This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from determinants explaining the difference of willingness-to-pay...

Public authorities frequently mandate public or private agencies to manage their renewable natural resources. Contrary to the agency, which is an expert in renewable natural resource management, public authorities usually ignore the sustainable level of harvest. In this note, we first model the...

[eng] Performance and efficiency in the utilities : The case of delegated water utilities. . In this paper we offer an empirical analysis of the operating costs of drinking-water supply delegated to private companies in France. An important factor in our modelling is the allowance for water...

This paper studies the optimal growth when research and development are explicitly distinguished. To this end, we perform the quantitative welfare analysis of an original model based on (i) a matching process between research and development and (ii) a competitive search process that determines...

Public authorities (often local) frequently mandate public or private agencies to manage their natural resources. Contrary to the agency, which is an expert in resource management, public authorities usually do not know the sustainable harvest level. In this paper, we model the contractual...