By signing a fixed water sharing agreement (FWSA), countries voluntarily commit to release a fixed amount of river water in exchange for an agreed compensation. We examine the vulnerability of such commitments to reduced water ows. Among all FWSAs that are acceptable to riparian countries, we...

By signing a fixed water sharing agreement (FWSA), countries voluntarily commit to release a fixed amount of river water in exchange for an agreed compensation. We examine the vulnerability of such commitments to reduced water ows. Among all FWSAs that are acceptable to riparian countries, we...

By signing a water sharing agreement (WSA), countries agree to release an amount of river water in exchange for a negotiated compensation. We examine the vulnerability of such agreements to reduced water flows. Among all WSAs that are acceptable to riparian countries, we find out the one which...

Twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter stood conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business on its head by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of...

This paper addresses the question of whether R&D should be carried out by an independent research unit or be produced in-house by the firm marketing the innovation. We define two organizational structures. In an integrated structure, the firm that markets the innovation also carries out and...

We consider the problem of efficiently sharing water from a river among a group of satiable agents. Since each agent's benefit function exhibits a satiation point, the environment can be described as a cooperative game with externalities. We show that the downstream incremental distribution is...

L’utilisation de pesticides et l’introduction de variétés résistantes à certains bioagresseurs (insectes, champignons, virus, bactéries) en agriculture exercent une pression de sélection sur ces populations de bioagresseurs. Au cours du temps, l’efficacité de ces technologies peut...

Nous testons en laboratoire trois instruments destinés à réguler l’exploitation d’une ressource commune par des agents hétérogènes : un système de taxes et de subventions, des quotas individuels transférables et non transférables. Nous proposons un modèle dans lequel l’objectif...

La protection de l’environnement se fait-elle automatiquement au détriment de la rentabilité des entreprises ? Cet article tend à démontrer que performance environnementale et économique ne sont pas toujours substituts mais peuvent être complémentaires pour l’entreprise. À travers...

We analyze the interaction between a reliable source of electricity production and intermittent sources such as wind or solar power. We first characterize the optimal energy mix, emphasizing the availability of the intermittent source as a major parameter for the optimal investment in capacity....