The objective of our work is to show the importance of a healthy institutional framework in the finance-growth relation. In this context, we start by presenting, a theoretical lighting on this subject while trying to define the concept of the governorship and to determine its various...

French Abstract: Dérivé du terme crowdsourcing, le crowdfunding (ou financement participatif) est une méthode de levée de fonds, principalement sur Internet, qui s'appuie sur les réseaux sociaux et les plates-formes communautaires. Face aux contraintes réglementaires restreignant son...

Les mesures en faveur de la concurrence pourraient avoir dans les PME un impact contrasté sur leur niveau d’innovation ; cependant, un accompagnement des PME en phase basse de cycle pourrait favoriser leur effort permanent d’innovation.

This paper studies how financial development affects the relation between average growth and growth volatility through liquidity crises. We .first establish in a micro model that imperfect enforceability creates a short term bias in contracts financing long term investments. This can generate...

This paper addresses the macroeconomic impact of international financial integration. I first provide empirical evidence that foreign banking penetration can be associated with a contraction of banking credit, especially in countries with poor credit markets. Second I present a model in which...

Sur la base d’une enquête qualitative, l’article montre que la participation des investisseurs français sur les marchés obligataires locaux des pays émergents est en expansion mais reste freinée par une perception encore forte du risque associé.

Cet article fournit une évaluation empirique de la relation entre le développement financier et la croissance économique, en prenant en compte l’instabilité financière. L’analyse porte sur un échantillon de 71 pays et couvre la période 1960-2004. Les résultats obtenus à l'aide d'une...

The aim of this paper is to briefly review the main debates between the New Institutional Economics (NIE) and the Old Institutional Economics (OIE). While the NIE is considered in the literature as essentially orthodox, the OIE’s thesis are mainly heterodox. From a theoretical perspective, (i)...

In this paper we present a model of economic growth where agents are characterized by social status concern behaviour. With respect to the literature, we show that social status seeking is not always desirable for economic growth. Specially, we prove that the impact of status seeking on growth...

This paper highlights formally the interaction existing between the quality of institutional governance, the education sector and economic growth. More fundamentally, we show how the quality of institutional governance matters in giving directly the appropriate incentives for human capital...