[eng] Detention and use of payment instruments in France . In this article, we offer a general picture of the detention and the use of payment instruments in France, and we determine which variables influence consumer payment behavior. We show that a large majority of the French hold a checkbook...

[fre] L’objet de cet article est de présenter l’état de la littérature théorique et empirique sur les déterminants de la détention et de l’usage par les consommateurs des instruments de paiement. Les auteurs distinguent deux grands types de déterminants : ceux liés aux instruments...

Abstract In recent years, regulators in various parts of the world have capped interchange fees on debit and credit cards. The justification for the caps rests to a large extent on the argument that these cards have, for certain merchants, become must-take cards rather than “wanna-take...

This article uses a peculiarity of French local elections to test the influence of mobilization factors and the cost of voting on electoral turnout. At local elections, half of the constituencies have to vote in a single election (regional elections), whereas the other half cast two ballots (a...

This paper deals with the incidence of multi-office holding of local mandates on the French Deputies? work. We define this work through three types of activity : law production, control of the government and constituency representation. Using dea, we compute efficiency scores for the deputies...

The publication of Donohue and Levitt (2001)’s paper on the impact of legalized abortion on the decline of crime in the US has created a wide debate in the literature. However, the vast majority of papers have been implemented in the US setting, and the few other works were single-country...

Several methodological difficulties emerge from the empirical evaluation of the impact of closeness on turnout. The most critical resides in the use of the actual electoral results to assess the impact of closeness. Important doubt therefore remains with respect to the empirical validity of the...