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Dismissals and "rupture conventionnelle" : analysis and empirical assessment ...
This dissertation provides an empirical analysis of how employers use different long-term contract terminations: firing for personal reasons (LMP) and for economic... -
Corporate social responsability : stakes, strategies, impacts
This thesis investigates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), specifies its stakes, examines the communication strategies of its actors and determines the conditions... -
Analysis of Nature and Technique representations in the energy sector in Fran...
This thesis is dealing with the reality of an environmental utopia of cooperation between Nature and Technique in the energy sector, in the renewables in the... -
A realist theory of European integration : conditions for transforming an int...
This thesis proposes a theoretical framework able to account for the transition from an international system to a domestic one. It relies on empirical studies from the... -
Asynchronous Event Based Vision: Algorithms and Applications to Microrobotics
The dynamic vision sensor (DVS) is a silicon retina prototype that records only scene contrast changes in the form of stream of events, thus naturally excluding the... -
Regulation and trade in development : explaining productivity at the firm level
Institutions, and their underlying rules, are essential for economic development, in that they provide a framework for markets to operate. However, different types of... -
The role of the banking sector performance in the crisis of 2007
The drying-up of liquidity and freezing of the interbank markets during the crisis of 2007 led to the debasement of banks' balance sheets. At the same time, both bank... -
Four essays on fiscal policy after the global financial crisis
This dissertation is divided in two sections. The first section addresses the question of the consequences of fiscal policy interventions on the economy and the second... -
Essays on monetary policy in emerging economies
This PhD dissertation is made of four papers on central banking in inflation-targeting emerging economies. The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to two... -
Four essays about the link between improvements of urban transports and crimi...
The aim of this PhD dissertation is to study and reveal the impact of public transports' improvements on the configuration of the crime on a big city like Bogota.... -
Three essays on labor market volatility, monetary policy and real wage sticki...
The starting point of this PhD dissertation is related to the Shimer puzzle, i.e. the unability of the search and matching model to reproduce the high volatility of... -
Analysis of the Algerian economoic policy
The economic growth is a major indicator which estimates a country's capacity to improve its population well-being level. The economic literature associates economic... -
Information, institutions and efficiency : an experimental approach
Chapters 1 and 2 revisit the Beard and Beil (1994) two-player coordination game with two Nash equilibria: one Pareto-efficient, the other is Pareto-inefficient and... -
Decisions in the uncertain of a household and dynamics of its automobile beha...
During the last fort Y years, a large number of studies have analyzed the behaviors related to car holding and use. However, the majority of these studies consider the... -
Dynamic games relative to climate change
The world we are in : dynamic games relative to climate change. In these games the setting up of a carbon tax has Pigouvian grounds (to take into account the damage... -
Firms transparency and macroeconomic transparency : estimation of effects on ...
This thesis analyses the specific channels through which transparency promotes the growth of companies apprehended by investment efforts and reduces financing... -
Autobiography and pseudo-autobiography in the works of Driss Chraïbi
Driss Chraïbi is a writer whose work has brought about various reactions ever since his literary debut in 1954: novels, memoirs, detective novels, his creation did not... -
Ultrafast structural dynamics during the laser-driven solid-warm dense plasma...
Warm Dense Matter (WDM) is characterized by temperatures near the Fermi one and densities close to the solid. Experimental studies of WDM eventually out of... -
Four essays on the psychological determinants of risk-taking, education and e...
This thesis contributes to the experimental literature on the role played by psychological factors in educational choices implying risk-taking and performance. Using... -
The establishment size-wage premium : evidence from France
This dissertation aims to explore why large employers pay higher wages compared to similar workers in smaller size establishments in the presence of nonrandom...
