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I challenge the existing literature that claims that strongly biased technology is necessary to observe a simultaneous increases in the skill supply and the skill...

Extensive research has documented the importance of social trust for economic development, yet the origins of trust remain largely unexplored. This paper examines the...

We study the problem of an inventor who brings to the market an innovation that can be legally copied. Imitators may 'enter' the market by copying the innovation at a...

This note proposes a deconstruction of the notion of diversity, which is more and more frequently used. This is done by making explicit the historical contexts in...

Prizes are often awarded to encourage research on products deemed of vital importance. We present a mechanism which can, in situations where the innovators are better...

The paper endorses the thesis that current macro imbalances are partly due to an excess of household savings in China, whose origin is to be found among other things...

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not...

We study internalization of production externalities in perfectly competitive markets where production plans are decided by majority voting. Since shareholders want...

Contrary to what is still often believed, the climate and trade communities have a lot in common: a common problem (a global "public good") common foes (vested...

The EU severe debt problem requires urgently the design and implementation of domestic pro-growth reform agendas in Europe. Opening markets to foreign competitors has...

Investigations of the effect of quality differences on heterogeneous performance in exporting have been limited by lack of direct measures of quality. We examine...

Statt eines übergeordneten strategischen Konzepts prägt eine Vielzahl von Einzelmaßnahmen die Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik unter Nicolas Sarkozy. Zentrale...

Real divergences in economic performances that emerge between countries belonging to the eurozone make it necessary to define an economic policy oriented toward a...

How much leeway did governments have in designing bank bailouts and deciding on the height of intervention during the 2007-2009 financial crisis? This paper analyzes...

The opening up of the UK residential electricity sector in 1999 prompted several studies of the impact this had on both the level and structuring of retail charges,...

This article explores the determinants of working poverty in the European Union. At the individual and household level, the factors contributing to working poverty...

As attested by a growing body of literature1 and an increasing number of claims before arbitrators, the human rights ordeal now facing investment arbitration is the...

La loi sur la modernisation de l'économie (LME) a " pour ambition de relancer la concurrence ". Mais le projet de loi déposé se réduit, en fait, à une politique de...

This note shows that the asymptotic variance of Chen's [Econometrica, 70, 4 (2002), 1683-1697] two-step estimator of the link function in a linear transformation model...

Le 25 octobre dernier, le Wall Street Journal publiait un violent réquisitoire contre l'Europe intitulé " Regulatory Imperialism ". Ce qui était mis en avant dans ce...