We answer here to François Allisson?s and Nicolas Brisset?s comment on our article « Approval Voting, Evaluation Voting : An Experiment during the 2012 French Presidential Election » published in 2013 in the Revue économique (n?64). We develop five arguments which enable to qualify their...

[fre] UEM et coordination des politiques budgétaires, . par Jean Bensaid, Frédéric Gavrel.. . Alors que le traité de Maastricht prévoit une coordination très étroite des politiques monétaires des états membres de l'UEM, il se restreint, en manère budgétaire, à encadrer le niveau du...

We study the impact of a minimum wage in a segmented labor market in which workers are at different stages of their careers. At the end of a learning-by-doing period, workers paid the minimum wage quit “bad jobs” for better-paying “good jobs”, following an on-the-job search process with...

During the first round of the French Presidential election of April 22nd, 2012, voters of three French municipalities were invited to test approval voting and three types of evaluation voting. This paper presents the main results of that experiment. After correction of the participation and...

This paper considers an economy with heterogeneous workers where identical firms optimally decide on the degree of complexity of jobs. Meetings are depicted by an urn-ball process where firms rank their applicants and pick the best one. We show that a general rise in unemployment induces an...

In the literature of balance of payments crises, the collapse appears as the consequence of a "reserve hemorrhage". Nothing that the true origin of the "crisis" is not a reserve "problem" but Government insolvency, the purpose of this article is to relate the viability of a fixed exchange rate...

Nous proposons de fonder la dispersion des prix sur l'écart entre les horizons passés (les «expériences ») des différentes générations de clients. L'argument de base est simple : la vieille génération dotée d'une certaine connaissance du marché sera naturellement plus exigeante que...