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Main areas of research :

• Food Demand, Consumer Preferences, Econometrics.

• Dynamic Stochastic Equilibrium Models, Numerical Solution Techniques.

Publications and working papers

Publications

• Van Dam, I., Wood, B., Sacks, G. et al. A detailed mapping of the food industry in the European single market: similarities and differences in market structure across countries and sectors. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 18, 54 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01117-8
• Olivier Allais, Guy Fagherazzi, Julia Mink (2021). The long-run effects of war on health: Evidence from World War II in France, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 276.
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621001441
• O. Allais, Y. Algan, E. Challe and X. Ragot. (2020) The Welfare Cost of Inflation Risk under Imperfect Insurance. Annals of Economics and Statistics. No. 138 (June 2020), pp. 1-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.138.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents
• Dubois, P., Albuquerque, P., Allais, O. et al. Effects of front-of-pack labels on the nutritional quality of supermarket food purchases: evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial. J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-020-00723-5
• Mink, J., Boutron-Ruault, M., Charles, M. et al. Associations between early-life food deprivation during World War II and risk of hypertension and type 2 diabetes at adulthood. Sci Rep10, 5741 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62576-w
• Allais, O., Leroy, P., & Mink, J. (2020). Changes in food purchases at retirement in France. Food Policy, vol 90, 101806.
• Capacci, S., Allais, O., Bonnet, C., & Mazzocchi, M. (2019). The impact of the French soda tax on prices and purchases. An ex post evaluation. PloS one, 14(10), e0223196. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223196
• Allais, O., Bazoche, P., & Teyssier, S. (2017). Getting more people on the stairs: The impact of point-of-decision prompts. Social Science & Medicine, 192, 18-27. Science Direct ,
• "Determinants of diet and physical activity (DEDIPAC): a summary of findings" with Brug , J., van der Ploeg, H. P., Loyen , A., Ahrens , W., Andersen , L. F., Cardon , G., Capranica , L., Chastin , S., De Bourdeaudhuij , I., De Craemer , M., Donnelly , A., Ekelund , U., Finglas , P., Flechtner-Mors , M., Hebestreit , A., Kubiak , T., Lanza , M., Lien , N., MacDonncha , C., Mazzocchi, M., Monsivais , P., Murphy , M., Nicolaou , M., Nöthlings , U., O’Gorman , D. J., Renner , B., Roos , G., van den Berg , M., Schulze , M. B., Steinacker , J. M., Stronks , K., Volkert , D., Lakerveld , J. , DEDIPAC consortium (2017). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 14, 1-24.
• "Mandatory labels, taxes and market forces: An empirical evaluation of fat policies", with Etilé, F. and Lecocq, S., Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 43, 27-44.
• "Towards the integration and development of a cross-European research network and infrastructure: the DEterminants of DIet and Physical ACtivity (DEDIPAC)" with Lakerveld, J. , van der Ploeg, H. P., Kroeze, W., Ahrens, W., Andersen, L. F., Cardon, G., Capranica, L., Chastin, S., Donnelly, A., Ekelund, U., Finglas, P., Flechtner Mors, M., Hebestreit, A., Hendriksen, I., Kubiak, T., Lanza, M., Loyen, A., MacDonncha, C., Mazzocchi, M., Monsivais, P., Murphy, M., Noethlings, U., O'Gorman, D. J., Renner, B., Roos, G., Schuit, A. J., Schulze, M., Steinacker, J., Stronks, K., Volkert, D., van't Veer, P., Lien, N., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Brug, J., DEDIPAC Consortium (2014).  Knowledge Hub. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 11, 1-16.
• "Solving and simulating models with heterogeneous agents and aggregate uncertainty", with Algan, Y., W. Den Haan and P. Rendahl. In: Schmedders, Karl and Judd, Kenneth L., (eds.) Handbook of Computational Economics, 2014, Vol. 3. North-Holland, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 277-324.
• "The Effects of a Fat Tax on French Households' purchases: A nutritional approach", with P. Bertail et V. Nichèle, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, vol. 92, p 228-245.

• "Solving the incomplete markets model with aggregate uncertainty using parameterized cross-sectional distributions",  with Y. Algan and W. Den Haan, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, vol. 34(1), p 59-68.

•  "Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Policy", with Y. Algan and E. Cárceles-Poveda, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, vol. 12(14), p 678-696.

• "Using decomposed household food acquisitions as inputs of a Kinetic Dietary Exposure Model", with J. Tressou, Statistical Modelling, 2009, vol 9, p 27-50.

• "Solving Heterogenous-Agent Models with Parameterized Cross-Sectional Distributions", with Y. Algan and W. Den Haan, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, vol 32, p 875-908.

• "Capturing structural changes in French meat and fish demand over the period 1991-2002", with V. Nichèle,European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, vol 34, p 517-538.

• "Incomplete Unemployment Insurance under Aggregate fluctuations" with Y. Algan, Economics Bulletin, 2004, vol 5.

• "Local substitution and habit persistence: matching the moments of the equity premium and the risk-free rate",Review of Economic Dynamics, 2004, vol 7, p 265-296.

• "Histoire des peurs alimentaires, du Moyen Âge à l'aube du XXe siècle", ed Seuil, M. Ferrières, Comments on book with A. Lhuissier, Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, 2003, vol 66.

• "Habitudes de consommation et prime de risque sur le marché actions dans les pays du G7", with L. Cadiou et S. Dées. Economie et Prévision, 2001/1, vol 147, p 1-18.

Rapports de recherche

• Allais, O., Albuquerque, P., Bonnet, C., Dubois, P. (2017). Evaluation experimentation logos nutritionels. 98 p

Working papers

• AJAE appendix: The Effects of a Fat Tax on French Households' purchases: A nutritional approach", June 2008, with P. Bertail et V. Nichèle.

• "Markov Switching AIDS model: a technical note", October 2007.

  

Programs

JEDC simulation (2008)         JEDC comparison (2009)       Statistical modelling (2009)

Programs to simulate models without cross-sectional sampling variation. (Paper in JEDC 2008)

Matlab programs

• •  main program.
  •  example function that specifies a simple example savings function.
  •  external function.
  •  external function needed if fminsearch is used.
  •  external function needed if fminunc is used.

 Note that the user only has to change bfunc and a small section of the main program.

Fortran programs

• •  main program.
  •  subroutines.

 Note that the user only has to change the subroutine bfunc (in simul.f) and a small section of the main program.

Input files (used by both Fortran and Matlab programs)

•  coefficients of the savings function.
•  realizations of aggregate shock.
•  coefficients of initial density for unemployed.
•  coefficients of initial density for employed.
•  transition probabilities.

Programs used for the coputational comparison project.(Paper in JEDC 2009)

• Read me file.
• Main programs and inputs files (zip file).

Programs to decompose a series of household quantities into individual quantities. (Paper in Statistical modelling)

SAS programs

• Individualization.
• SAS Macro.

Data

• Databases description.
• Databases(ZIP).