Global warming may induce in Western Europe an increase in storms. Hence the forest managers will have to take into account the risk increase. We study the impact of storm risk at the stand level. From the analytical expressions of the Faustmann criterion and the Expected Long-Run Average Yield,...

International, economic and environmental contexts in this century are strongly affected by risks and uncertainties. Due to the long-term nature of forest investment, forest managers must integrate risks and uncertainties into their decisions. Our objective is to build a decision support tool to...

[fre] Un modèle d'enchères de bois sur pied par Bernard Elyakime et Patrice Loisel . Les bois sur pied sont souvent vendus en France par enchères avec prix de retrait secret dans lesquelles le produit est mal défini quant à son volume. Nous étudions un modèle en valeur privée...

Face à la montée du salariat à temps partiel notamment dans les groupements d’employeurs agricoles, nous étudions cette structure afin de rendre plus attractif l’emploi salarié dans un groupement d’employeurs : paiement incitatif des salariés et conditions de son existence. Chaque...

We study contracts designed to remunerate a farmer for the production of an ecosystem service with the payment dependent on the results of the farmer’s actions and on weather conditions. Two contracts are proposed: the first takes into account both the results of the farmer’s...

In this paper we consider a first-price sealed bid auction with a secret reservation price. Such auctions are used frequently in France to sell timber. Within the independent private values paradigm, we show that the equilibrium strategy of the seller is to choose a reservation price equal to...

We study contracts designed to remunerate a farmer for the production of an ecosystem service with the payment dependent on the results of the farmer’s actions and on weather conditions. Two contracts are proposed: the first takes into account both the results of the farmer’s actions and a...