The rule used by the United States Figure Skating Association and the International Skating Union, hereafter the ISU Rule, to aggregate individual rankings of the skaters by the judges into a final ranking, is an interesting example of a social welfare function. This rule is examined thoroughly...

This paper examines how the Workers'Compensation (WC) and the Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs interact to influence the duration of claims due to workplace accidents.

We extend Copeland and Taylor (1995)'s analysis of the incidence of international trade on world transboundary pollution by considering that countries are endowed with two primary production factors, capital and labour.

In this paper we use a computable general equilibrium model to study the impact of a trade shock and a tariff reform on household poverty for an archetype developing country. Unlike other studies, we present the income distribution of each household group as a Beta statistical distribution....

Cet article illustre les difficultes inherentes au processus democratique a partir des resultats d'une consultation tenue a l'Universite Laval, dans le cadre de la nomination d'un doyen.