This paper studies spousal peer effects on the smoking behaviour and their implication for the health of children through passive smoking. Smoking decisions are modeled as equilibrium strategies of an incomplete information game within the couple. Using data from the French Health Survey...

This paper quantifies the relationship between market size and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry using improved, and newer, methods and data. We find positive significant elasticities of innovation to expected market size with a point estimate under our preferred specification of 0.23....

[fre] Aléa moral, fertilité de la terre et choix de contrats aux Philippines. . Une application importante des modèles d'aléa moral concerne l'étude des contrats agricoles de fermage et de métayage. En tenant compte de l'évolution de la fertilité de la terre de manière endogène dans un...

We propose a structural empirical approach à la Olley and Pakes (1996) to disentangle the effect of experts' grades from the effect of unobserved quality on the pricing of experience goods. Using a panel data set of 108 châteaux selling wine on the "en primeur" market of Bordeaux, we confirm...

We present a model of vertical contracts between manufacturers and retailers with nonlinear pricing strategies. Using home-scan data on bottled water produced by manufacturers and sold by retail chains in France, we estimate a structural demand and supply model allowing for two-part tariff...

[fre] Après avoir retracé les divers enseignements qu'apportent les sources statistiques, l'article examine les relations entre qualification et salaire dans la convention collective de l'habillement, puis à travers les pratiques de quatre entreprises. La convention collective exclut la prise...

Using data on individual consumption from farm households in the Philippines, we construct a direct test of risk-sharing within the household. We contrast the efficient outcomes predicted by the unitary household model with the outcomes we might expect if food consumption delivers not only...