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Drag and Lift Forces in Granular Media
This thesis presents an experimental and numerical study of the forces experienced by an object moving in granular media. This problem, which is of practical... -
Alfred Jarry : A Cerebral Blind-Man's Buff. A Study in the Strategies of Sema...
This thesis has a two-fold aim. Firstly, to propose a new reading of Jarry's works (in the context of his time and not as seen through the distorting lens of... -
Paradoxes, aporias and contradictions at the heart of the sustainable develop...
This research aims at confronting the theoretical aspects of the sustainable development paradigm with the practical forms it can take, through the study of a regional... -
Elaboration and implementation of a systemic intervention method for small an...
This thesis is part of the research on organizational intervention, and more specifically on employee wellbeing in small and medium-sized companies. Starting from a... -
Mobile payment : Economic prospect, business models and competitives issues
Mobile phone overtakes its first communication functions including payment functions. This thesis proposes an economic analysis of the key issues of mobile payment, it... -
Auditory training and musical training in profoundly deaf children : auditory...
This thesis focuses on the auditory training and auditory skill development of congenitally profoundly deaf children. It aims to evaluate, not only the effects of... -
Psychosocial issues of large transport infrastructures
This thesis is at the crossroads of environmental psychology and social psychology, and introduced by an epistemological reflection promoting the Complex Thought... -
Regional trade agreements : dynamic of integration, trade and devlopment in W...
This thesis aims to analyze the impact of the creation of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a regional trade agreements (RTAs) example on the... -
Perception and coverage of extreme risks under uncertainty on the insurance a...
This thesis aims to better understand the individual decisions of insurance and reinsurance market actors facing different information types, the coverage of extreme... -
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...
