Cet article traite de l'effet des mécanismes de réponse de la demande sur l'efficacité des marchés de gros d'électricité. Dans le cadre des réformes de libéralisation des marchés de l'énergie, l'attention a initialement porté sur le seul coté offre du marché, supposant implicitement...

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....

In nonpoint source pollution problems, the regulator does not observe each polluter’s individual emission, which prevents him from using the conventional policy instruments. Therefore, new instruments have been designed to regulate this type of pollution. In an experiment, we compare the...

The paper investigates whether the premium consumers are willing to pay for an eco-labelled product is driven by selfish or altruistic motives. Using an incentive-compatible experiment with both a within- and a between-subject design, we study the effect on this premium of information stating...

This article shows how experiments revealing information about food quality and safety can contribute to regulatory debates on food and health. After detailing the motivations of regulation for the food sector, we underline the limits of theoretical welfare analysis. Despite challenges from...

Представлены два последовательных обучающих экономических эксперимента, которые показывают базовые принципы, формирующие конкурентоспособность фирмы. В...

This paper considers the effects of the opportunity to change partners on communication. We experiment a standard cheap talk game where a player observes a private forecast before disclosing it (truthfully or untruthfully) in a message that he/she sends to his/her partner. Two treatments are...

We report the results of an original experiment that was designed to test the strength and robustness of the attraction effect. Rather than the usual simple tests for this effect, we consider a conceptually simple consumer purchasing task where alternatives are however difficult to evaluate. For...

The paper considers the external validity of the growing set of literature that uses laboratory auctions to reveal consumers' willingness to pay for consumer goods, when the concerned goods are sold in retailing shops through posted prices procedures. Here, the quality of the parallel between...