It is well known that rightly applied reverse auctions offer big commercial potential to procurement departments. However, the sheer number of auction types often overwhelms users in practice. And since the implications of a wrongly chosen auction type are equally well known, the overall usage of re...

We try to better understand possible reasons for deviations between statistically-measured competitive balance (CB) and perceived CB. Moreover, we suggest answers to the following questions: are there specific dimensions of CB that are perceived to be significantly less balanced in the Danish Superl...

This thesis is based on three essays focused on analysis of the excess liquidity in the CEMAC countries. The first one identifies the determinants of excess liquidity in developing countries by studying the case of CEMAC member countries from 1985 to 2002. The GMM estimator used has shown that the e...

round table organised in the context of the Spring of the Economy On Thursday 21 March 2019 in Paris with the participation of Anne Eydoux (LISE CEet, C-) The Economics of Turgot give the floor to the atterred economists [a session devised by Anne Eydoux]. After the Aubry laws of 1998 and 2000, the...

Technology-oriented innovative startups must conduct extensive experiments to gather sufficient proofs of value, so that they may reduce uncertainties before the launch of their products and services on the market. Despite their limited resources, the experiments conducted by startups are often rand...

Bout Cloud, only few works deals with dynamic and real usage analyse of deployed software in order to determine the true related costs, and licensing compliance with acquired rights from the software editors.However, the emergence of Software Asset Management (SAM) shows the growing concerns of the...

This dissertation examines the philosophical foundations of social choice theory. Social choice theory is the area of normative economics which is concerned with the aggregation of individual preferences. The aim of this work is to investigate the philosophical assumptions of social choice theory in...

This note reproduces the general conclusion of a study entitled ‘Indexation of raw materials and development’, carried out between June 1976 and March 1978 by SEMA-PROSPECTIVE on behalf of the Ministry of Industry and Energy. The aim of the study was to determine to what extent and under what condit...

Unabated coal power in India must be phased out by mid-century to achieve global climate targets under the Paris Agreement. Here we estimate the costs of hybrid power plants - lithium-ion battery storage with wind and solar PV - to replace coal generation. We design least cost mixes of these technol...

We introduce and discuss optimal control strategies for kinetic models for wealth distribution in a simple market economy, acting to minimize the variance of the wealth density among the population. Our analysis is based on a finite time horizon approximation, or model predictive control, of the cor...

"The long run effect of social policies is rarely studied due to the lack of panel data. This work presents a new approach to deal with this problem that combines monetary transfers with already-studied short run effects and synthetic panel data. I rely on the CEQ Institute to identify beneficiaries...

International audience Drawing on the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES), we revisit the link between firm-level investment climate and productive performance for a panel of enterprises surveyed twice in time in 70 developing countries and 11 manufacturing industries. We take advantage of the time...

The observation, in companies of various sizes and sectors, of around ten training schemes which do not correspond to the standard form of training in a company but are more closely integrated into working situations, brings to light the existence of an interactive learning process based either on t...

In this article we consider the problem of testing the exogeneity of a subset of assumed endogenous variables in an econometric model. We first show that it is possible to present this problem in a general way both in the context of the instrumental variables and in the context of the maximum probab...

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Asch Susan. Raymaekers (Paul) Desroche (Henri) The Administration and the Sacré. Religious speeches and political debates in Central Africa (1921-1957). In: Archives of social sciences of religions, No. 59/2, 1985. pp. 295-296.

Lebanese pre-war town planning was “liberal”, but centralised, like the economy. In fact, there were few plans, old ones and many derogations. The war has multiplied the centres of influence, creating a sort of forced decentralisation, and Beirut broke out into several areas of influence. Post-war,...

Lesage-Senault Gaspard Jean Joseph. Decree, proposed by the representative Lesage-Senault, ordering that the administration and the district court, previously established in the Quesnoy, will provisionally hold their sittings in Landrecies (Nord) at the sitting of 18 thermidor an II (5 August 1794)....

Rationing of healthcare resources has emerged as an important issue, which has been discussed by medical experts, policy-makers, and the general public. We consider a rationing problem where medical units are to be allocated to patients. Each unit is reserved for one of several categories and each c...

Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern democracies, governments need to convince their populations through...

In a recent article in the American Economic Review, Tatyana Deryugina and David Molitor (DM) analyzed the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the mortality of elderly and disabled residents of New Orleans. The authors concluded that Hurricane Katrina improved the eight-year survival rate of elderly and...

[ES] Currently the effects of the environmental impact are evident. Investment decisions by both producers and countries, and consumer behaviour, remain largely focused on solving local and short-term problems. Design has encouraged this type of consumption model, with an emphasis on creating produc...

research carried out under the eclat — ESCG programme on behalf of ADEME and the Ministry of the Environment. Given the increase in congestion and urban nuisances, can we envisage reversing the trend towards increased mobility? That is the general question to which the authors of that report sought...

Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world and 40% of the world population is exposed to malaria. Despite the current control strategies such as rapid diagnosis and treatment of disease cases, use of insecticide impregnated materials and indoor residuals spraying with insecti...

In the context of achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals, revenue mobilization is a high priority in developing countries and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where governments’ ability to tax remains limited. Using a unique revenue dataset spanning the period 1980-2010, we analyze three important ta...