The effects of the reform on the welfare of households are analysed with the INSEE survey "Budgets des familles 1979", using the methodology of M. A. King [1983] applied to a linear expenditure system where all parameters vary with household characteristics. The evaluation of global consequences...

During the past few decades, the interest of economists in the sources of long-term economic growth has led an increasing number of them to focus on the role of innovation in creating that growth. Although some researchers have always been interested in this topic, the groundbreaking work of...

In empirical demand analysis separability restrictions are usually imposed as maintained hypotheses. The separability inflexibility of most functional forms makes parametric tests of these restrictions appear problematic. We follow Pudney (1981) in stressing the usefulness of a description of...

The present paper focuses attention on the sensitivity of technical inefficiency to most commonly used one-sided distributions of the inefficiency error term, namely the truncated normal, the half-normal, and the exponential distributions. A generalized version of the half-normal, which does not...

[eng] Estimation of a Comprehensive System of Goods Demand and Labour Supply for a Sample of French Households, . by Richard Blundell, François Laisney and Matthias Ruth.. . In order to obtain a comprehensive demand system compatible with life-cycle decisions, previously obtained estimation...

[eng] Combining Panel Data and Macro Information for the Estimation of a Panel Probit Model . by François Laisney and Michael Lechner . When studying particular subgroups of a population the econometrician typically has few observations, and should draw upon any additional relevant information....

[spa] Enfoques microeconometricos de la oferta de trabajo en Francia, . por François Laisney.. . El conocimiento detallado de las reacciones del compartimiento de oferta de trabajo de los hogares frente a variaciones del índice de salario marginal o del ingreso no salarial reviste gran...

[ger] Schätzung eines vollständigen Systems der Güternachfrage und des Arbeitsangebots für eine Stichprobe französischer Haushalte, . von Richard Blundell, François Laisney, Matthias Ruth.. . Um ein vollständiges Nachfragesystem zu erhalten, das mit dem Treffen von Entscheidungen uber den...