The situation regarding the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services is now critical. Consequently, environmental targets have been determined and environmental legislations at every level tend to be more demanding. The result at local scale is that land planners have to take more rigorous...

When individuals have limited information and are uncertain about the quality of a good, government policy, or the lack thereof, can serve as a signal to consumers about the likelihood of realizing alternatives states of nature. In this paper, we focus on a controversial beliefs about government...

La prise en compte de l'intérêt du citoyen dans la décision publique passe par l'estimation des préférences individuelles. Dès lors qu'il n'existe pas demarché de référence, mesurer l'impact d'une décision publique sur le bien-être des individus pose un vrai problème méthodologique....

Au cours d'une expérimentation, les auteurs ont étudié l'impact d'une nouvelle information concernant la sécurité alimentaire sur le consentement à payer des individus pour des produits alimentaires. Les prix ont été révélés à travers deux procédures d'enchères : soit des enchères...

Through the Water Framework Directive, the European Commission urges its Mem- ber states to reach a level of "good status" of water for 2015. This level can be different from the regional first-best. Neither the supra-regional regulator (European Commission) nor the regional regulator (Member...

We investigate experimentally whether higher trust leads to increased performance by relying on simple trust games. Our results show that trust and performance are positively related but not as strong as suggested in the investment game. As a side result, we observe that the rewards of the...

[fre] Du point de vue du décideur public, une politique de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique se justifie si les bénéfices engendrés sont supérieurs aux coûts. La plupart des études évalue les bénéfices d'une amélioration de la qualité de l'air en termes de coûts sanitaires...

[eng] To assess how a public decision can affect citizens’ interests, we need to estimate individual preferences. Economists usually assess individual preference through a market decision. Most often, however, public decisions have an impact on non-market goods. Without a market to refer to,...

We study the impact of new information about food safety on subjects' willingness-to-pay for food products, in an experimental setting. We elicit prices using either a second price auction or the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure. There are three stages of bidding. In stage 1, subjects bid for...