Extensive research has documented the importance of social trust for economic development, yet the origins of trust remain largely unexplored. This paper examines the historical relationship between risk, cooperation and the emergence of social trust. I hypothesize that norms of trust developed...

In this paper, we assess the extent to which multinational firms – in the first instance, the German ones – may adjust their international outsourcing over the business cycle in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For that purpose, we have used monthly data of production for the manufacturing...

Les dépenses publiques d’éducation contribuent-elles à réduire les inégalités ? La réponse à cette question, simple en apparence, dépend en réalité de choix normatifs et pose de façon parallèle des problèmes de mesure. Selon l’angle d’analyse adopté, on peut conclure d’une...

La situation conjoncturelle de l’ensemble des grands pays développés a fortement évolué au cours de la période 2007-2010. Or de nombreuses mesures de politique économique ont été maintenues. C’est le cas notamment de la défiscalisation des heures supplémentaires et son exonération...

I discuss the fixed-effect estimation of panel data models with time-varying excess heterogeneity across cross-sectional units. These latent components are not given a parametric form. A modification to traditional first-differencing is motivated which, asymptotically, removes the permanent...

We investigate the general equilibrium effects of minimum consumption constraints over labor supply decisions. Within a simple static model, a minimum consumption constraint modifies labor supply decisions of unskilled workers, generating the well-known added worker effect. The results of the...

Les stratégies de croissance visent généralement à améliorer les conditions d’offre lesquelles sont censées déterminer le taux de croissance potentiel. La demande est reléguée au rang de variable qui n’influence le produit et l’emploi qu’à court terme. La condition sine qua non...

We analyze the interaction of economic and political determinants of free trade agreements (FTA). In addition to standard trade gains, FTAs can promote peaceful relations by offering a political forum and by increasing the opportunity cost of conflicts that disrupt trade. If policy makers...

This paper proposes a method to address the longstanding problem of lack of monotonicity in estimation of conditional and structural quantile functions, also known as the quantile crossing problem. The method consists in sorting or monotone rearranging the original estimated non-monotone curve...

Despite the liberalization of capital flows among OECD countries, equity home bias remains sizable. We depart from the two familiar explanations of equity home bias: transaction costs that impede international diversification, and terms of trade responses to supply shocks that provide risk...