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La Communauté d'Etats latino-américains et caribéens (CELAC)
Dans le paysage déjà très encombré du régionalisme latino-américain1, le dernier né des accords, la Communauté d'Etats latino-américains et caribéens (CELAC),... -
Pairwise-comparison estimation with nonparametric controls
The purpose of this paper is the presentation of distribution theory for generic estimators based on the pairwise comparison of observations in problems where... -
Information Transmission in Nested Sender-Receiver Games
We introduce a "nestedness" relation for a general class of sender-receiver games and compare equilibrium properties, in particular the amount of information... -
The Efficiency and Evolution of R&D Networks
This work introduces a new model to investigate the efficiency and evolution of networks of firms exchanging knowledge in R&D partnerships. We first examine the... -
Bureaucracy in Quest for Feasibility
The head of an organization is viewed as dealing with an optimization problem under a variety of constraints. The bureaucracy, by contrast, is viewed as dealing with... -
The Doha Round: Where do we stand?
As most of the high tariffs protect agricultural products, consumers tend to back off because they often support small farmers. But the term "agriculture" is a... -
Walking a Tightrope: World Trade in Manufacturing and the Benefits of Binding
Negotiators in Geneva are still struggling to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, after seven years of... -
How Much Further Can the WTO Go? Developed Countries Issues
A lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of the WTO. The paper argues that such a lack of leadership is a... -
L'expérience de la mobilité sociale ascendante : les deux visages de la réuss...
Cet article questionne les théories sur l'expérience de la mobilité ascendante. Pour définir une perspective théorique permettant de prendre en compte la complexité... -
Redemption?
The economic crisis which started in 2008 led to a strong rise in public debts. The sovereign debt crisis in euro area southern countries breached the unity of the... -
L'effet pro-concurrentiel de l'intégration européenne : une analyse de l'évol...
Dans cet article, nous testons l'hypothèse selon laquelle plusieurs chocs structurels, macroéconomiques et sectoriels, auraient joué globalement dans le sens d'un... -
Présidence française de l'Union européenne : priorité à la lutte contre le ch...
Comme les objectifs ambitieux de la stratégie de Lisbonne, il semble qu'à ce jour, la lutte contre le changement climatique souffre, en Europe, d'un manque... -
Entry, Innovation and Exit from LAN Switch Industry
We investigate whether the form of exit is triggered by the form of entry and technical expertise, an exercise which has been persistently missing in the literature,... -
Moral sentiments, democracy and redistributive politics : between nature and ...
According to the standard economic approach, the level of redistribution in a democratic society is growing with the inequality of the income distribution. However,... -
Automatic Stabilisation, Discretionary Policy and the Stability Pact
This paper describes recent trends on the efficiency of stabilisers in the European Union. Using both macro evidence on the cyclical sensitivity of budget deficit to... -
Détermination du niveau des prix et finances publiques : le cas du Liban, 196...
La théorie budgétaire du niveau des prix distingue deux types de régimes pour les politiques économiques : Ricardien et Non-Ricardien. Nous analysons dans quelle... -
North by Northwest : What's Wrong with the French Model and How Can the Nordi...
In this paper, we try to point out some important weaknesses of the contemporary French socialeconomic model, focusing on relevant elements of comparison with Nordic... -
European social model(s) and social Europe
There seems to be a broad consensus in Europe that there is a European Social Model (ESM), typical of European societies and that this model should be protected and... -
Are MCIs Good Indicators of Economic Activity ? Evidence from the G7 Countries
The aim of this article is to determine whether Monetary Condition Indices are useful indicators for future economic activity. First, two versions of MCI are... -
Knowledge and Productivity in the World's Largest Manufacturing Corporations
This paper examines the relationship between the characteristics of firm knowledge in terms of capital, diversity and relatedness, and productivity. Panel data...
