This paper analyses the optimal hedging decisions for risk-averse producers facing crop risk, assuming crop yield insurance futures and options can be used. The first-best optimal hedge requires a futures position or an option position proportionate to the individual beta depending on whether...

Cet article propose un modèle du marché camerounais du poulet de chair en équilibre partiel mono produit. Le modèle met en évidence les gains des consommateurs et les pertes des producteurs de poulets de chair lorsque l’on passe d’une situation d’autarcie, comme c’était...

Market definition according to reducing pollution at least cost whith transferable rights for manure spreading - Concepts from transferable discharge permits were applied to the context of nitrogen surplus of animal origin in Brittanny. We simulated markets for spreading rights in some local...

Cet article propose un modèle du marché camerounais du poulet de chair en équilibre partiel mono produit. Le modèle met en évidence les gains des consommateurs et les pertes des producteurs de poulets de chair lorsque l’on passe d’une situation d’autarcie, comme c’était...

The concept of the restricted cost function provides a dual approach to the analysis of short-run technology. It allows also, under curvature restrictions, inference of the different possible equilibria, according to constraints on the firms. Moreover, in this paper, the properties of the...

The objectives of this paper are to propose and to implement for the French case an approach for the estimation of consumers' willingness to pay for tap water quality. This method is indirect and is based on the observation of the households' demands for soft drinks and bottled water. The lack...

Depuis la fin des années 1990, la production camerounaise de poulet de chair est fortement concurrencée par les importations à bas prix de poulet congelé en provenance du Brésil ou d’Europe, entraînant une crise de la filière. Une enquête réalisée à Yaoundé a montré les...

In this paper a method to infer the value for consumers of the quality of supplied water is presented and applied. It uses concepts developed in the literature of environmental good valuation and the literature of equivalence scale measurement. It is applied to French data.

Consumer concerns in food purchasing contain a number of attributes, including the nutritional and sanitary values, conditions of breeding and selling, and other social issues. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an analytical and an empirical approaches to estimating the marginal...

Consumer concerns in food purchasing contain a number of attributes, including the nutritional and sanitary values, conditions of breeding and selling, and other social issues. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an analytical and an empirical approaches to estimating the marginal...