Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d’économie et de statistique

 

NUMBER 103 / 104 – JULY / DECEMBER 2011

Special Issue ON EnvironmentAL AND RESOURCE Economics

Special Issue on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Introduction
Michel Moreaux and Katheline S
chubertpage 7

Polluters and Abaters
Alain-Désiré Nimubona and Bernard S
inclair-Desgagnépage 9

Weak Enforcement of Environmental Policies:  A Tale of Limited Commitment
and Limited Fines
Yolande Hiriart, David M
artimort and Jérôme Pouyetpage 25

Energy-Saving Technology Adoption under Uncertainty in the Residential Sector
Dorothée Charlier, Alejandro Mosiño and Aude Pommeret
page 43

Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers
Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline et Mouez F
odhapage 71

Adverse Selection, (Non-Tradable) Emission Permits and Optimal Price Differentiation
Mourad Afif and Sandrine Spaeter
page 93

Optimal Use of a Polluting Non-Renewable Resource Generating both Manageable
and Catastrophic Damages
Jean-Pierre Amigues, Michel Moreaux and Katheline S
chubertpage 107

Optimal Dynamic Management of a Renewable Energy Source under Uncertainty
Catherine B
obtcheffpage 143

 

Macroeconomics

Transparency and Monetary Policy Effectiveness
Romain Baeriswyl and Camille Cornand
page 175

Terms of Trade Shocks and the Non-Monotonic Adjustment of the Current Account 
Olivier C
ardipage 195

Les déséquilibres externes des États-Unis conduisent-ils à des asymétries
au sein de l’Union économique et monétaire ?
Aurélien Eyquempage 223

Surplus Consumption Ratio and Expected Stock Returns 
Imen Ghatassi
page 245

Défiscalisation des heures supplémentaires : une perspective d’équilibre général
Julien Matheron
page 273

 

 

Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d’économie et de statistique

 

NUMBER 101 / 102 – january / june 2011
CONTENTS

 

Special Issue oN Social Choice AND VOTING

Introduction to the Special Issue on New Developments in Social Choice and Welfare Theories
Marc F
leurbaey, Dominique Lepelley, Vincent Merlinpage 7

Inequality Decomposition Values
Frédéric Chantreuil, Alain T
rannoypage 13

Freedom-Based Measurement of Living Standard
Nicolas G
ravel, Benoît Tarrouxpage 37

Measurement of Voting Power: a Preliminary Analysis of an Historical French Electoral Episode Through Simulations
Dominique Lepelley, Laurent Vidu
page 71

A Comparison Between the Methods of Apportionment Using Power Indices.
The Case of the
us Presidential Election
Fabrice Barthelemy, Mathieu M
artinpage 87

The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules with Mutually Coherent Voter Preferences:
A Borda Compromise
William Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley, Hatem Smaoui
page 107

No-Show Paradoxes under Parliamentary Agendas
Boniface Mbih, Xingyu Z
haopage 127

The Political Supply in the 2007 French Presidential Elections:
An Analysis Based on Experimental Data
Antoinette Baujard, Herrade Igersheim, Thomas Senné
page 149

Generalized Binary Constitutions and the Whole Set of Arrovian Social Welfare Functions
Nicolas Gabriel Andjiga, Issofa Mouyouwou, Joël Moulen
page 187

 

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Is Agglomeration Desirable?
Fabien C
andaupage 203

Optimal Health Care Contract under Physician Agency
Philippe C
honé, Ching-to Albert Mapage 229

Travailler moins pour travailler plus longtemps
Helmuth C
remer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieaupage 257

Bilingualism and Communicative Benefits
Jean Gabszewicz, Victor G
insburgh, Shlomo Weberpage 271

Contracting and the Disclosure of Ideas in the Innovation Process
David M
artimort, Jean-Christophe Poudou, Wilfried Sand-Zantmanpage 287

The Composition of Compensation Policy: From Cash to Fringe Benefits
Patricia C
rifo, Marc-Arthur Diayepage 307

Dynamic Cooperation in Local Public Goods Supply with Imperfect Monitoring
Guillaume Cheikbossian, Wilfried S
and-Zantmanpage 327

Can Social Preferences Be both Stationary and Paretian?
Stéphane Z
uberpage 347

 

 

ANNALS OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

NUMBER 99/100, JULY/DECEMBER 2010

 

CONTENTS

 

                   SPECIAL ISSUE:MEASURING DISCRIMINATIONS

 

Measuring Discriminations: an Introduction

Emmanuel Duguet, Yannick L’Horty, Dominique Meurs, Pascale Petitpage 5

 

Child-related Career Interruptions and the Gender Wage Gap in France

Dominique Meurs, Ariane Pailhe, Sophie Ponthieuxpage 15

 

Technological Change and Gender Wage Gaps in the U.S. Service Industry

Simona Lup Tick, Ronald L. Oaxacapage 47

 

Gender Wage Differentials in the French Nonprofit and For-Profit Sectors:
Evidence from Quantile Regression

Jean-Michel Etienne, Mathieu Narcypage 67

 

On the Measurement of Wage Mobility and its Decomposition

Audrey Dumas, Jacques Silber, Michal Weberpage 91

 

National Origin Differences in Wages and Hierarchical Positions

Romain Aeberhardt, Julien Pougetpage 117

 

Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa Mc Inerney, David Neumarkpage 141

 

An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market

Peter A. Riach, Judith Richpage 169

 

Are Young French Jobseekers of Ethnic Immigrant Origin Discriminated Against?
A Controlled Experiment in the Paris Area

Emmanuel Duguet, Noam Leandri, Yannick L’Horty, Pascale Petitpage 187

 

      Labour Economics

Reconciling Work and Family Life: The Effect of the French Paid Parental Leave

Julie Moschionpage 217

 

Réforme de la protection de l’emploi et performance du marché du travail dans un modèle d’appariement

Olivier L’Haridon, Franck Malherbetpage 247

 

The Impact of the Reason for Layoff on the Subsequent Unemployment Duration

Anna Okatenkopage 285

 

Training and Age-Biased Technical Change

Luc Behaghel, Nathalie Greenanpage 317

 

Should Part-Time Jobs be Subsidised?

Alexis Parmentierpage 343

 

       Macroeconomics

Désinflation et chômage dans la zone euro : une analyse à l’aide d’un modèle var structurel

Patrick Feve, Julien Matheron, Jean-Guillaume Sahucpage 365

 

Detecting Mean Reversion in Real Exchange Rates from a Multiple Regime star Model

Frédérique Bec, Mélika Ben Salem, Marine Carrascopage 395

 

Per Capita Output Convergence : The Dickey-Fuller Test Under the Simultaneous Presence of Stochastic and Deterministic Trends

Manuel GOMEZ-ZALDIVAR, Daniel VENTOSA-SANTAULARIApage 429

 

 

ANNALS OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

NUMBER 97/98, JANUARY/JUNE 2010

 

 

SPECIAL ISSUE ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

 

CONTENTS

 

Introduction

Migration and Development: New Insights

Hubert Jayet, Hillel Rapoportpage 5

 

Macro and Trade Perspectives

Macroeconomic Consequences of Global Endogenous Migration:
a General Equilibrium Analysis

Vladimir Borgy, Xavier Chojnicki, Gilles Le Garrec and Cyrille Schwellnuspage 13

 

Ethnic Networks, Information, and International Trade: Revisiting the Evidence

Gabriel J. Felbermayr, Benjamin Jung and Farid Toubalpage 41

 

Migrant Associations, Trade and fdi

Leila Baghdadi and Angela Chepteapage 71

 

fdi, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence

Artjoms Ivlevs and Jaime De Melopage 103

 

Brain Drain, Human Capital and Development

Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less

Yoko Niimi, Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiffpage 123

 

On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoportpage 143

 

How Does High-Skilled Emigration Affect Small Countries:
Microeconomic Evidence from Tonga

John Gibson and David McKenziepage 167

 

Migration and Human Capital in an Endogenous Fertility Model

Luca Marchiori, Patrice Pieretti and Benteng Zoupage 187

 

Migrants’ Self-selection

Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the us?

Vincenzo Caponipage 207

 

A Revision of the Self-selection of Migrants Using Returning Migrants’ Earnings

Aitor Lacuestapage 235

 

Networks, Sorting and Self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants

Simone Bertolipage 261

 

Migrants’ Return, Savings and Location Decisions

Savings, Asset Holdings and Temporary Migration

Christian Dustmann, Josep Mestrespage 289

 

Are There Returns to Migration Experience? An Empirical Analysis
using Data on Return Migrants and Non-Migrants in West Africa

Philippe De Vreyer, Flore Gubert and Anne-Sophie Robilliardpage 307

 

The Location of Immigrants in Italy : Disentangling Networks and Local Effects

Hubert Jayet, Nadiya Ukrayinchuk, Giuseppe De Arcangelispage 329

 

 

 

ANNALS OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

NUMBER 95/96, JULY/DECEMBER 2009

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

 

Special issue   Labor Market Outcomes: A Transatlantic Perspective

 

                Overview of the Articles

                Arnaud CHÉRON and François LANGOTpage 5                  

               

A.   Labor Market Outcomes and the Role of Institutions in the Long Run

 

       The Impact of Unemployment Benefits

 

       Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Transatlantic Comparison

                Stéphane PALLAGE, Lyle SCRUGGS and Christian ZIMMERMANNpage 15

       Employment and Fear of Unemployment: A Transatlantic Comparison

                Alexandre BACLET, Daniel COHEN and Cyril NOUVEAUpage 25

       An Optimal Financing Scheme for Unemployment Benefit: A Transatlantic Comparison

                Julien ALBERTINI and Xavier FAIRISEpage 43

               

       Taxes versus Labor Market Institutions and the Long-Run Shift in the Employment Rate

 

       Hours Worked: Explaining Cross-Country Differences through the Effects of Tax/Benefit Systems

       on the Employment Rate

                Coralia QUINTERO-ROJASpage 79

               

       Beyond the Representative Agent: A Life-Cycle perspective

 

       Employment, Hours per Worker and Taxes: A Life-Cycle Analysis

                Richard ROGERSON and Johanna WALLENIUSpage 105

       The Role of Institutions in Transatlantic Employment Differences: A Life-Cycle View

                Arnaud CHÉRON, Jean-Olivier HAIRAULT and François LANGOTpage 121

               

       Technological Progress, International Trade, Financial Development and the Housing Market

 

       Comparing the Effect of Labor Market Institutions on Employment Dynamics

                during the Technological Diffusion Process

                Eva MORENO-GALBISpage 139

       Openness, Financial Markets and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns

                Giuseppe BERTOLA and Anna LO PRETEpage 167

       The Social Housing and Rental Housing Markets in an Equilibrium Rent Search Model

                Sébastien MENARDpage 183

       Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power

                Peter RUPPERT, Elena STANCANELLI and Etienne WASMERpage 201

               

B.   Labor Market Institutions and the Business Cycle Dynamics of the Labor Market

 

       Sequential Bargaining in a Neo-Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment and Staggered Wage Negotiations

                Gregory DE WALQUE, Olivier PIERRARD, Henri SNEESSENS and Raf WOUTERSpage 221

       Understanding the Dynamics of the Labor Share: the Role of non-Competitive Factor Prices

                Sekyu CHOI and José-Víctor RIOS-RULLpage 251

       Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles

                Raquel FONSECA, Lise PATUREAU and Thepthida SOPRASEUTHpage 279

 

ANNALS OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

NUMBER 93/94, APRIL/JUNE 2009

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

Editorial

 

     Crossing the Rubicon

                Robert GARY-BOBO – page 5                       

                              

Environment

 

      La politique optimale de séquestration du carbone par les sols agricoles en France

Katheline SCHUBERT et Lionel RAGOTpage 7

      Politique environnementale, contrainte et permis de pollution dans un modèle à générations imbriquées

Pierre-André JOUVET et Fabien PRIEURpage 45

      Welfare Improvement Properties of a Pollution Permit Market in a Production Economy

                Antoine MANDELpage 67

               

Industrial Organization and Trade

 

     The “Names Game”: Harnessing Inventors, Patent Data for Economic Research

                Manuel TRAJTENBERG, Gil SHIFF and Ran MELAMEDpage 79

      Collusion et anticipation : une analyse empirique sur un cas historique

                Gil MONTANTpage 109

      Comparison of Alternative Payment Mechanisms for French Treasury Auctions

                Olivier ARMANTIER and Erwann SBAÏ – page 135

      Mutual Monitoring vs. Incentive Pay in Teams

                Radoslawa NIKOLOWApage 161

      Complementarity of Inputs across Countries in Services Trade

                Carolina LENNON, Daniel MIRZA and Giuseppe NICOLETTIpage 183

      Maisons de disques et artistes : convergence ou conflit d’intérêts face au numérique ?

                Nicolas CURIEN et François MOREAUpage 207

      Customisation vs. Standardisation: International Integration and Consumer Surplus

                Olivier GAUSSENS, Sophie LECOSTEY and Kiumars SHAHBAZIpage 233

               

Finance

 

      Optimal Investment under Credit Constraints

                Mohamed BELHAJ et Bertrand DJEMBISSIpage 259

      Options de croissance, coût du capital et valeur des investissements

                Jean-Claude GABILLON – page 279

      Efficacité et compétences spécifiques des dirigeants : l’arbitrage entre incitations externes et incitations internes

                Christian AT, Nathalie CHAPPE, Pierre-Henri MORAND and Lionel THOMAS – page 301

               

Micro Theory

 

      Does a Disadvantaged Candidate Choose an Extremist Position?

                Raphaël SOUBEYRAN – page 328

      On the Ambiguous Effects of Repression

                Eric LANGLAIS – page 349

      Système de retraite et vieillissement

                Gilles LE GARREC – page 363