The French experience in developing policies to reduce car use in metropolitan areas is presented in this paper as an illustration of the lack of recognition of the broader set of criteria on which specific policy frameworks should be judged. One of the major challenges, and often failings of...

This paper addresses the issue of railway reform in China. It begins with a description of the strengths and the weaknesses of Chinese railways. There follows a review of the different ways of putting competitive pressure on railways and an analysis of their application to Chinese railways....

Housing prices in the Lyon Urban area are simulated with the land use framework UrbanSim interacting with the transportation model MOSART. We focus on the Real Estate Price Model of the UrbanSim framework, which proposes the ordinary least square regression. In our simulation, the alternative...

Purpose: In many countries, service workers' (e.g. restaurant staff, bartenders) income depends highly on tips. Such workers are often female and targeted by sexual harassment. The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether the mode of compensation (tips vs. no tips) could play a causal...

[fre] Partant du constat que les marchés financiers ne s'auto régulent pas, conduisent à des crises fréquentes, mais qu'ils sont indispensables à une bonne allocation des ressources dans l'économie, l'auteur formule une série de dix propositions concrètes de nature à assurer la...

[fre] Les nouvelles normes comptables (IAS ou IFRS) comme le nouveau ratio prudentiel bancaire (Mac Donough) vont très prochainement entrer en application. Elles ont été produites de façon à prendre en compte l'évolution de l'économie financière globalisée et les défaillances des...