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Trade Liberalization, Inequality and Poverty in Brazilian States
This paper studies the impact of globalization on household income inequality end poverty using detailed microdata across Brazilian states from 1987 to 2005. Results... -
A Simple Model of Offshore Outsourcing, Technology Upgrading and Welfare
We adapt Yeaple's (2005) heterogeneous agents framework to model firms in the North as making explicit offshore outsourcing decisions to cheap-labor economies.... -
Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in ...
Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatment effects. Yet their use for policy design is often limited by... -
La Banque Mondiale : un équilibre difficile entre expertise et bureaucratie
C'est la mission de ceux qui sont invités à prononcer cette conférence annuelle prestigieuse que d'illustrer comment la science économique permet de guider la décision... -
Reflections on the Great Recession of 2008-2009
As economists and policy makes ponder the lessons of the last two turbulent years, many troubling questions remain. What went wrong? Why did policy makers fail so... -
Le revenu de solidarité active ou l'avènement des droits incitatifs
Les minima sociaux ont pour finalité première de fournir à chaque citoyen ou résident des moyens convenables d'existence en cas de difficulté ou d'impossibilité... -
Financial Liberalization, Elite Heterogeneity and Political Reform
What accounts for the dynamics of financial reforms? This paper identifies the political regime as main factor. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, it... -
Currency Mismatch and Systemic Risk in Emerging Europe
We analyze the dual role of currency mismatch: as a vehicle that exposes the economy to systemic risk, but also as an engine of growth. We do so at the macro and the... -
Do food scares explain supplier concentration ? An analysis of EU agri-food i...
This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agrofood imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive... -
An Impact Study of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in the Six ACP ...
This article provides a very detailed analysis of the trade-related aspects of Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations. We use a partial equilibrium model -... -
Les langues hors de la loi
Devrait être publié dans le second semestre de 2014 aux Editions Fayard (collection Quarante Piliers) dans un ouvrage réunissant une sélection des textes présentés oralement... -
A Non-dissipative Reconstruction Scheme for the Compressible Euler Equations
We present a finite volume scheme, first on the Burgers equations, then on the Euler equations, based on a conservative reconstruction of shocks inside each cells of... -
QUANTUM PAINLEVÉ II SOLUTION AND APPROXIMATED ANALYTIC SOLUTION OF THE YUKAWA...
In this paper, it has been shown that one dimensional non- stationary Schrödinger equation with a speci c choice of potential reduces to the quantum Painlevé II... -
Polanyi, lecteur de Marx
En premier lieu, c'est la critique du capitalisme et du fascisme comme la prolongation toujours possible de celui-ci qui nous semble devoir être traitée.... -
Transport hub flow modelling
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the road freight haulage activity. Using the physical and data flow information from a freight forwarder, we... -
The effect of debt on corporate profitability : Evidence from French service ...
Current study aims to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of debt on corporate profitability. This impact can be explained by three essential theories:... -
Application des techniques d'enchères dans les réseaux de radio cognitive
The rapid proliferation of standards and radio services in recent years caused the problem of spectrum scarcity. The main objective of Cognitive Radio (CR) is to...
