This paper is an attempt to formalize analytically the question raised in “World Population Explained: Do Dead People Outnumber Living, Or Vice Versa?” Huffington Post, Howard (2012). We start developing simple deterministic Malthusian growth models of the problem (with birth and death rates...

From 1975 to 1995, the Swiss franc appreciated in a near constant manner compared with the currencies of all of the country's commercial partners. This paper will seek to demonstrate that the various regions in Switzerland evolve differently when faced with a continuously appreciating currency....

[fre] La filière bois connaît un certain nombre de difficultés tant en France qu'en Suisse. Un certain nombre de tentatives de revitalisation ont été menées, la plupart sans succès. Dans cet article, nous avançons l'idée que cet échec est dû à un manque de compréhension du...

[fre] Durant les dernières décennies, les dynamiques industrielles étaient essentiellement analysées par des approches sectorielles. Or, depuis une vingtaines d'années, le phénomène étrange auquel les économistes sont confrontés est une coïncidence renouvelée entre le développement...

This paper addresses the issue of updating a research agenda about territorial innovation models (TIMs) such as innovative milieus, industrial districts, regional innovation systems, etc. The theoretical shift from innovation studies to the knowledge economy is taken into account by the...

Financialization is a major trend in Western economies. This paper shows, on the one hand, how it changes the management criteria and, on the other hand, the limits to financialization in the property sector. Between 1992 and 2004, about 15% of Swiss pension funds' wealth was invested in...

Over the last few decades, territorial approaches have generally tried to explain how regions have specialised their production systems around specific path dependencies and technological innovation; how their specialisation enabled them to compete locally in the global market. Some...