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Why do people spread rumors? This paper studies the transmission of possibly false information---by rational agents who seek the truth. Unbiased agents earn payoffs...

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances....

L'objet de cette étude est de dresser un bilan des performances économiques et sociales du Sénégal durant la première période de la présidence Wade (2001 à 2006). Plus...

Let E be the complete Euclidean graph on a set of points embedded in the plane. Given a constant t >= 1, a spanning subgraph G of E is said to be a t-spanner, or...

This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on...

In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young in-dependent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys...

The distributional incidence of growth is generally analyzed by comparing the quantiles of the pre- and post-growth income distribution -e.g. the so-called Growth...

This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the impact of trade-related variables at the household...

We compare the risk neutral pricing model with the CAPM when it is understood that both models are incorrect. We show that the former is better than the latter when a...

Wheesht is one of the candidates to the CAESAR competition. In this note we present several attacks on Wheesht, showing that it is far from the advertised security...

Ce papier examine les effets de la libéralisation ou globalisation des marchés de capitaux sur les prix des actifs financiers. La comparaison des modèles de...

11 pages including 9 figures, uses IOP style files; to appear in J. Phys.: Condensed Matter (proceedings of HFM2006)

11 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected

35 p.

In this paper, we provide a micro-econometric analysis of the relationship between quality of work indicators and employment dynamics in ten European countries over...

40 pages (v3: New Section 5.6 added in which Bethe Ansatz equations are written explicitly for all untwisted quantum affine algebras. New examples, references, and historical...

We begin with Fermat equation and solve it.

9 pages

Nous évaluons l'impact d'un aménagement des conditions de travail sur le retour au travail après un cancer. En appliquant une méthode d'appariement, nous trouvons que,...

This paper focuses on the consequences of the crisis on job quality in Europe. Its aim is twofold: first, to identify trends in job quality in the EU during the...