Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

We study the effect of the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. To capture conditional conservatism, we use three measures: the Basu (1997) measure, the Khan and Watts (2009) measure, and a measure controlling for potential shifts in unconditional...

Rapport pour la Direction générale de la compétitivité, de l'industrie et des services 2013 Le présent rapport s'efforce de dégager les spécificités des investissements chinois en Europe et de rassembler des informations susceptibles d'aider à en tirer le meilleur profit possible en...

Cet article évalue le potentiel de soutenabilité du secteur de l'eau urbaine en Europe suite à sa modernisation. L'analyse procède en mobilisant le cadre théorique des régimes institutionnels de ressource et conclue que la modernisation offre un progrès nécessaire mais pas suffisant....