Economics serving society

« Économie comportementale des politiques publiques », Yannick Gabuthy, Nicolas Jacquemet and Olivier L’Haridon (May 2021)

Discover this new book, published in May (Editions La Découverte) by Yannick Gabuthy, Professor of Economics at the University of Lorraine; Nicolas Jacquemet, Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne) and Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics; and Olivier L’Haridon, Professor of Economics at the University of Rennes 1

« Économie comportementale des politiques publiques » (Behavioral economics of public policies)

Dedicated page on the publisher’s site:
https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/economie_comportementale_des_politiques_publiques-9782348055386

Extract from the back cover

Summary

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The effectiveness of public action is a growing concern for the authorities, who are increasingly calling on the results of economic science research. The contribution of economics to the development of public policies lies in its ability to analyse and understand the way in which economic actors react to changes in the decision-making environment.. This reasoning is based on strong behavioural assumptions, which are the focus of a recent stream of research, behavioural economics, combining psychology and economics in order to refine the understanding of the determinants of decisions.

This book provides an overview of the contributions of this new trend of behavioral research to the definition and evaluation of public policies. It describes new intervention tools, such as nudges, while highlighting the relevance of traditional intervention tools, with applications to health economics, savings and retirement choices, environmental policy and labour market regulation.

The authors

Yannick Gabuthy

Yannick Gabuthy is Professor of Economics at the University of Lorraine. His research interests lie mainly in the field of law and economics, with a particular focus on litigation and conflict resolution.

Nicolas Jacquemet

Nicolas Jacquemet is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne) and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. His research interests include non-monetary incentive instruments, anti-discrimination tools, the measurement of preferences for non-market goods, and the behavioral effects of communication and information within teams. Since 2015, he has been the director of the master’s degree in Economics and Psychology, which associates the Faculty of Economics of the University of Paris 1, the Paris School of Economics and the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Paris.

Olivier L’Haridon

Olivier L’Haridon is a professor of economics at the University of Rennes 1. His main area of research is behaviour under risk and ambiguity. He is also interested in labour economics and negotiation.