Cet article analyse les impacts de l'introduction de frais d'inscription à l'Université Paris 9 Dauphine sur les parcours des étudiants recrutés par cette université. Les données que nous utilisons sont issues de la base de données SISE qui recense de manière exhaustive les inscriptions...

In this paper, we study the higher education financing based on the classical contributory versus self-funded pension funding scheme. We provide a brief discussion of how a system based on student debt can be seen 'funded' and why it fails to ensure equity and efficiency and funding for the...

Should we (really) raise tuition fees ? This article offers a critical analysis of the usual arguments in favour of tuition fees: 1) the iniquity of the French system, 2) market efficiency to select, guide and encourage the effort, 3) the financing of the university. We defend the thesis that,...

Après avoir rappelé qu'un régime par capitalisation ne garantissait ni équité, ni efficience, ni même le financement de l'enseignement supérieur, nous définissons ce que pourrait être un régime d'éducation par répartition et discuté de ses atouts et limites, pour construire une...

In a recent paper, Gary-Bobo and Trannoy introduce a model to study tuition fees as a tool to select students, in presence of asymmetric and imperfect information on the candidates' capacities. One of their main results is that if the results of the entrance test results are public, then it can...

The principle of conditional convergence, in growth theory, fails to explain growth paths that are durably divergent among countries having similar structural characteristics (same rates of investment, of capitaldepreciation, of demographic growth, and similar access to technologies and...

This article is about the heterogeneity of "emerging economies" and their different development processes, followed by the analysis of the new international division of labor emerging with their boom, the strong growth and the rapid pace of industrialization of several Asian countries, the...

The article examines the sensibility of economic growth to macroeconomic volatility, and the impact of financial development on volatility for a sample of 85 countries and OECD countries over two periods covering 1975 to 2006. In that purpose, we implented nonstationary panel techniques that...

The reduction of global imbalances observed during the climax of crisis is incomplete. In this context, currencies realignments are still proposed to ensure global macroeconomic stability. These realignments are based on equilibrium rates derived from equilibrium exchange rate models. Among...

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...