Call for papers for a special issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, on "International Environmental Justice and the Quest for a Green Global Economy" The journal special issue will explore : The links between sustainable development, green economy and social-e...

“Financial Regulation and International Competitiveness: The Case of the German Bundesliga“: The paper discusses the intensively discussed problem of financial crisis, overburdening debts and insolvencies in professional European football. The academic literature identifies several special character...

Complementarity between information science and economics is the subject of research which, although still at an early stage, offers interesting results. Thus, the usefulness of CIS in economics can be illustrated by a media modelling test and their possible tendency to create ideological bias, whil...

This article proposes a review of recent econometric studies which have made use of the disaggregated statistics of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the United States concerning open positions on oil derivatives markets by type of player. The more detailed distinction between “comm...

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This dissertation studies the contribution of universities to industrial innovation by focusing on the impact that university demand has on the innovative performance of firms.In the first chapter, we conduct an in-depth literature review of the main research streams studying universities’ influence...

This text, which presents some financial and fiscal aspects of the three main types of sub-national governments in Canada (provinces/territories, regional/urban/municipal and school), concludes that there is no significant tax competition but that there is fiscal diversity. There is a trend towards...

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...

A number of recent Optimality-Theoretic approaches to Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphologies (NTM) such as the verbal systems of Arabic and Hebrew have argued that NTMs do not require reification of the consonantal root (Bat-El, 1994 ; Ussishkin, 1999, 2000, 2005 ; Buckley, 2003). This article pres...

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...

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over the last 20 years, few tourist destinations in the world have built a success as fast as Marrakesh. To such an extent that the ‘Moroccan destination’ is often indissociable from that of the ‘red city’; Marrakesh’s case is unique in the world. Behind this achievement, a will and political commit...

Bill Clinton, in his presidential campaign, made the slogan ‘It’s the economy, stuck!’ famous, and his vice-president Al Gore might have preferred ‘It’s climate, studying!’. In the case of the murder fires in Portugal, which the government recognises will be repeated, there are two options: keeping...

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International audience The purpose of this paper is to understand why people shop at small retailers in their community. The authors investigate the influence of consumers’ civic commitment, measured at behavioural and perceptual levels, on small-retailer patronage (SRP). Design/methodology/approach...

We consider a group of strategic agents who must each repeatedly take one of two possible actions. They learn which of the two actions is preferable from initial private signals, and by observing the actions of their neighbors in a social network. We show that the question of whether or not the agen...

Diet for a low-carbon planet / Alan Miller, Development in a Changing Climate, World Bank blog, 5/05/2011 http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/diet-low-carbon-planet Most of the proposed solutions to climate change such as substitution of fossil fuels require large investments, policies that are...

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...

I examine global dynamics in a monetary model with overlapping generations of finite-horizon agents and a binding lower bound on nominal interest rates. Debt targeting rules exacerbate the possibility of self-fulfilling liquidity traps, for agents expect austerity following deflationary slumps. Conv...

withdrawals of payment of a certain amount in respect of minor expenses. Real Sociedad Económica de Friends del País de Valencia (1912). Withdrawals of payment of a certain amount in respect of minor expenses. Real Sociedad Económica de Friends del País de Valencia. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/26754...

On the first ARGO day (November 2010), we launched the project of a scientific network exploring the links between “marsibility, religion and economy in the ancient Mediterranean.” We considered this “conceptual triangulation” as a possible confrontational tool to shed light on a system of behaviour...

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...