Research



Work in Progress
New pharmacotherapies for obesity management: health and economic implications, OECD collaboration
Optimal Junk-Food Taxes
Peer Effects, Green Choices and Nudges

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Économie de l’obésité. Peer-reviewed book. Collection “Repères”, Éditions La Découverte, February 15, 2024.
Conspicuous Leisure, Time Allocation, and Obesity Kuznets Curves , with Ronald Wendner, Macroeconomic Dynamics (2024), p. 1-41.
Malbouffe: mal taxée?, invited article, Revue Francaise d'Economie, Numero special: Evaluation des Politiques Publiques (2023/1), XXXVIII, p. 149-182.
Economic stress and body weight during the Covid-19 pandemic, invited article, Studies in Microeconomics (2021), Special Issue: COVID 19 Pandemic: Health Hazard, Nutrition and Food Security, DOI: 10.1111/joes.12458.
The Elusive Link Between Income and Obesity , Journal of Economic Surveys (2021), DOI: 10.1111/joes.12458.
Hand-to-Mouth Consumption and Calorie Consciousness: Consequences for Junk-Food Taxation, Public Finance Review (2021), 49 (2): p. 167-220.
We Are What We Eat: Obesity, Income, and Social Comparisons, with Ronald Wendner, European Economic Review (2020), 128, p. 1-36.
Could Obesity Be Contagious? Social Influence, Food Consumption Behavior, and Body Weight Outcomes, Macroeconomic Dynamics (2019), p. 1-36.
Can Tax Reforms Help Achieve Sustainable Development? , Resource and Energy Economics (2017), 50, p. 135-163.
Reassessing the Effects of Environmental Taxation When Pollution Affects Health Over the Life-Cycle,, with Xavier Pautrel, Economic Modelling (2016), 52 (B), p. 310-321.
Optimal Taxation and Income Mobility with Borrowing Limits,, Public Finance Review (2011), 39 (3), p. 393-428.
Appendix
Taxe environnementale, morbidité et profil de productivité,, with Xavier Pautrel Revue Economique (2011), 62 (3), p. 501-510.
Optimal Taxation and Borrowing Constraints, Economía (2011), XXXVI, 31 enero-junio p. 9-53.
Appendix
Welfare Improving and Distributionally Neutral Tax Reforms,, Economic Modelling (2010), 27 (5), p. 1253-1268.
Optimal Taxation and Finite Horizon,, Economics Letters (2006), 91 (2), p. 215-221.
Appendix
Optimal Taxation and Inequality: A Comparative Study of the US and Latin America,, in Progress in Economics Research (2011), Nova Science Publishers, (24).