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MOSAIC (MOndialisation, organiSAtIon, Consommation)

Coordinators : Angela Cheptea and Sterenn Lucas

The MOSAIC research program covers theoretical and empirical analyses in international, industrial, geographical and consumer economics, with applications mainly to the agricultural, food and retail sectors. Our work in this area focuses on evolving societal challenges, strategies of economic agents and public policies, and addresses three main research themes :

International competitiveness and revisited trade gains

Firms’ strategies in terms of quality, public and private standards, major economic players (retailers, multinational enterprises, etc.), the redistributive and environmental effects of international trade agreements (e.g. on food security, use of water resources, use of pesticides, job market).

Coordination of Agri-food supply chain and territorial governance

Distribution of margins along value chains, the geographic concentration of production, meeting the societal expectations in terms of environment and product quality, cooperatives and their involvement in the agroecological transition, circular economy, advantages and limits of a spatial reorganization of agricultural production in order to feed urban population.

Consumption, sustainable attributes and quality of life

Farm-to-fork strategies, determinants of the consumption of market and non-market goods, intrinsic vs. sustainability attributes of food products, landscape planning in urban and suburban areas (urban vegetation, quality of life, acceptable environmental and socio-economic transition).

Key publications

• Artis A., Roger B., Rousselière D., Lambert M., Laveyssières J. (2020).
  "Facteurs d’implantation de l’ESS sur les territoires : proposition d’un modèle explicatif."
  Revue internationale de l’économie sociale (RECMA), in Press

• Bazoche P., Poret S. (2020).
  "Acceptability of insects in animal feed: a survey of French consumers."
  Journal of Consumer Behaviour, in Press.

• Cheptea A., Gaigné C. (2020).
  "Russian Food Embargo and the Lost Trade."
  European Review of Agricultural Economics, in Press.

• Musson A., Rousselière D. (2020).
  "Le rôle des coopératives dans la diffusion d’une éco-innovation : le cas de l’adoption de films recyclés par les maraîchers du bassin nantais."
  Développement Durable et Territoires, in Press.

• Gaigné C., Latouche K., Turolla S. (2020).
  "Compétitivité internationale du secteur agroalimentaire français. C’est quoi le problème?"
  Annales des Mines (1947), réalités industrielles (Mai), 21-29.

• De Sousa J.C., Disdier A.C., Gaigné C. (2020).
  "Export decision under risk."
  European Economic Review, 121: 103342.

• Musson A., Rousseliere D. (2020).
  "Social capital and Life Satisfaction: A new approach."
  Economics Bulletin, 40: 1, 359-381.

• Musson A., Rousseliere D. (2020).
  "Identifying the impact of crisis on cooperative capital constraint. A short note on French craftsmen cooperatives."
  Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, 2020, 35, 101290.

• Cheptea A., Emlinger C., Latouche K. (2019).
  "Exporting firms and retail internationalization: Evidence from France."
  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28: 3, 561-582.

• Cheptea A., Huchet M. (2019).
  "Will a No‐deal Brexit Disturb the EU‐UK Agri‐food Trade?"
  EuroChoices, 18: 2, 28-36.

• Coisnon T., Rousselière D., Rousselière, S. (2019).
  "Information on biodiversity and environmental behaviors: A European study of individual and institutional drivers to adopt sustainable gardening practices."
  Social Science Research, 84, 102323.

• Duvaleix-Treguer S., Ledos F., Lepetit G. (2019).
  "L’usage du digital, facilitateur de la gouvernance? Le cas des coopératives agricoles."
  Revue Internationale de l'Economie Sociale, 351: 1, 68-80.

• Gaigné C., Sanch-Maritan M. (2019).
  "City size and the risk of being unemployed. Job pooling vs. job competition."
  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 77, 222-238.

• Lucas S., Gouin S., Lesueur M. (2019).
  "Seaweed Consumption and Label Preferences in France."
  Marine Resource Economics, 34: 2, 143-162.

• Poizat A., Duvaleix-Treguer S., Rault A., Beaugrand F. (2019).
  "Le marché des broutards en France. Organisation de la filière, transmission de l’information et qualité."
  Economie Rurale, 368, 107-127.

• Tendero M., Plottu B. (2019).
  "How to implement a participatory decision support for contaminated brownfield? A case study from France."
  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 62: 10, 1736-1760.

• Gaigné C., Turolla S., Latouche K. (2018).
  "Vertical ownership and export performance: firm-level evidence from the food industry."
  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 100: 1, 46-72.

• Allain M.L., Chambolle C., Turolla S., B. Villas-Boas S. (2017).
  "Retail mergers and food prices: evidence from France."
  Journal of Industrial Economics, 65:3, 469-509.

• Allais O., Bazoche P., Teyssier S. (2017).
  "Getting more people on the stairs: the impact of point-of-decision prompts."
  Social Science and Medicine, 192, 18-27.

• Bazoche P. (2017).
  "Sustainable Wine Choice."
  Reference Module in Food Sciences, Elsevier, pp. 1-4.

• De Cara S., Fournier A., Gaigné C. (2017).
  "Local Food, urbanization, and transport-related greenhouse gas emissions."
  Journal of Regional Science, 57: 1, 75-108.

• Gaigné C., Letort E. (2017).
  "Co-localisation des différentes productions animales en Europe : l’exception française?"
  INRA Productions Animales 30: 3, 219-228.

• Plottu B., Tendero M. (2017).
  "Acceptabilité des choix d'aménagement des friches urbaines polluées."
  Revue d'Economie Régionale et Urbaine, 2, 335-353.

• Ben Slimane M., Huchet-Bourdon M., Zitouna H. (2016).
  "The role of sectoral FDI in promoting agricultural production and improving food security."
  Economie Internationale, 145, 50-65.

• Duvaleix-Treguer S., Soler L.G. (2016).
  "Prescriptive labeling of food products: a suitable policy instrument?"
  Revue d'Economie Politique, 126: 5, 895-919.

• Gaigné C., Duvaleix-Treguer S. (2016).
  "On the nature and magnitude of cost economies in hog production."
  Agricultural Economics, 47: 4, 465-476

• Gaigné C., Larue B. (2016).
  "Quality standards, industry structure and welfare in a global economy."
  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 98: 5, 1432-1449.

• Gaigné C., Riou S., Thisse J.F. (2016).
  "How to make the metropolitan area work? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire."
  Journal of Public Economics, 134, 100-113.

• Laroche-Dupraz C., Huchet-Bourdon M. (2016).
  "Agricultural support and vulnerability of food security to trade in developing countries."
  Food Security, 8: 6, 1191-1206.

• Salladarré F., Brécard D., Lucas S., Ollivier P. (2016).
  "Are French consumers ready to pay a premium for eco-labelled seafood products? A contingent valuation estimation with heterogeneous anchoring."
  Agricultural Economics, 47: 2, 247-258.

• Turolla S. (2016).
  "Spatial Competition in the French Supermarket Industry."
  Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 213-259.