DRC geopolitical situation was conceived by the colonizer in terms of his own interests based on the facility of the exporting means of our wealth towards the metropolis. During the second republic, the building of some airports had as unique criterion of selection, the interests of president....

Presentation of the PLS regression

This study tries to quantify the impact of transition in Eastern countries in an early stage on the cost-side and also on the benefit-side. The exposition plan includes: 1) Introduction; 2) Structural distortions; 3) Transition versus stability.

Objectives. This paper aims to show that it's not always possible to detect fraud in sales volume with Benford's law. Data. I use video games hardwares sales volume, in Japan (from april 1989), in United-States, France, Germany and United-Kigngdom (from november 2000). Study Design. After a...

L'objet de ce papier n'est pas tant de présenter les principaux algorithmes utilisés en modélisation économique - nombre de manuels font des présentations de meilleure qualité et plus exhaustives - que d'en proposer une vision critique. Les modèles économiques, et plus particulièrement...

Judgment (or logical) aggregation theory is logically more powerful than social choice theory and has been put to use to recover some classic results of this field. Whether it could also enrich it with genuinely new results is still controversial. To support a positive answer, we prove a social...

According to Statistics Canada productivity estimates, the rate of growth of real output per hour in the construction industry in Canada over the 1981-2006 period was 0.53 per cent per year, one-third of the business sector average. This article examines evidence for and against the hypothesis...

This 14th issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are recent productivity developments in the United States; lessons for Canada from international productivity experience; India’s...

We investigate in this paper local development at the level of the french local entities called EPCI (Etablissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale), which gather different city councils of the French region Basse-Normandie. Sets of socio-economic and fiscal variables allow us to...

In modern economies, technical change is rapid and competitive edges of companies are closely related to 'intangible' capital. While some intangibles are covered by established capital measures in the national accounts, many are outside the measurement boundary. The NBER volume at hand brings...