[fre] La littérature empirique sur l’économie des instruments de paiement s’est principalement centrée sur l’étude des comportements de paiement des consommateurs. Pourtant, ainsi que le montrent les travaux théoriques récents sur les two-sided markets appliqués aux systèmes de...

[eng] Detention and use of payment instruments in France . In this article, we offer a general picture of the detention and the use of payment instruments in France, and we determine which variables influence consumer payment behavior. We show that a large majority of the French hold a checkbook...

[fre] L’objet de cet article est de présenter l’état de la littérature théorique et empirique sur les déterminants de la détention et de l’usage par les consommateurs des instruments de paiement. Les auteurs distinguent deux grands types de déterminants : ceux liés aux instruments...

This paper aims at understanding why cardholders still withdraw cash from bank branches. Differentiating the direct and indirect costs of a withdrawal, we exploit a unique data set of a French representative sample in order to estimate the probability to withdraw cash at a bank branch...

This article studies e-Government uses in order to determine if, among Internet users, e-administration services benefit to specific categories of the population. From individual French data (insee [2005]) and controlling for the selection bias related to Internet use, we show that among...

This article uses a peculiarity of French local elections to test the influence of mobilization factors and the cost of voting on electoral turnout. At local elections, half of the constituencies have to vote in a single election (regional elections), whereas the other half cast two ballots (a...

This paper deals with the incidence of multi-office holding of local mandates on the French Deputies? work. We define this work through three types of activity : law production, control of the government and constituency representation. Using dea, we compute efficiency scores for the deputies...

The publication of Donohue and Levitt (2001)’s paper on the impact of legalized abortion on the decline of crime in the US has created a wide debate in the literature. However, the vast majority of papers have been implemented in the US setting, and the few other works were single-country...

L’objet de cet article est de déterminer l’influence des dépenses de campagne sur les résultats électoraux en France. À partir d’une étude empirique fondée sur les élections législatives de 1997, nous montrons que les résultats électoraux français sont sensibles aux dépenses...

We propose a theory of territorial captivity to explain the level of voter turnout in national elections. We start by showing that the consequences of voting in an election are limited to a clearly defined territory. For this reason, the expected return on the election results will be higher for...