Recent reforms all over the world have deeply changed the landscape in which higher education institutions and researchers/teachers evolve. Starting from the premise that research was more significant both in volume and quality in the Anglo-Saxon world, a consensus has emerged to justify the...

This article proposes a perspective on international climate agreements, based on mechanism design. We exhibit a trade-off between incentives and participation. We derive a general condition under which the first-best allocation can be implemented. We then discuss how this condition is affected...

The renegotiation of contracts in the French urban transport industry. This paper describes the renegotiation of delegated management contracts in the French urban transport. We briefly describe the sector, sketch a theoretical model showing that contract renegotiation explains an increasing...

This paper offers some results on the comparison of the costs and benefits associated to the Public-Private Partnerships and to the traditional mode of public contracting. We conclude by explorng the limits of the model. Classification JEL : H11

This paper presents a model in which education affects simultaneously individual productivity and political participation. A capitalist oligarchy initially holds political power in a developing economy where the majority of workers are uneducated. When the economy is closed, it can be in the...