Dans le contexte de l'objectif du millénaire de scolarisation universelle, de nombreux pays de l'Afrique subsaharienne ont largement modifié le système de recrutement et de formation des enseignants du primaire. Les enseignants ainsi recrutés le sont sur la base de contrats annuels,...

Countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) still exhibit lower income levels than the European Union (EU) average. This paper examines convergence in per-capita GDP between CEE and the EU over the period 1990-2012 using parametric and nonparametric methods. The results indicate initial...

The aim of this thesis is to analyze, from an empirical point of view, both the different varieties of economic and financial crises (typological analysis) and the context’s characteristics, which could be associated with a likely occurrence of such events. Consequently, we analyze both: years...

In this paper, we study several tests for the equality of two unknown distributions. Two are based on empirical distribution functions, three others on nonparametric probability density estimates, and the last ones on differences between sample moments. We suggest controlling the size of such...

In this text, we review some recent developments in econometrics that may be of interest to specialists in other areas than economics, and we discuss some relations of econometric methodology with general themes of scientific methodology and philosophy of science, such as the falsifiability...

We estimate a generalized option pricing formula that has a functional shape similar to the usual Black-Scholes formula by a feedforward neural network model. This functional shape is obtained when the option pricing function is homogeneous of degree one with respect to the underlying asset...

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector. Resource availability per pupil has increased significantly over the past decade in a number of countries; often in attempting to exploit the link between educational attainment...

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three...

The purpose of the paper is to propose an autocorrelogram estimation procedure for irregularly spaced data which are modelled as subordinated continuous time series processes. Such processes, also called time deformed stochastic processes, have been discussed in a variety of contexts. Before...