Ce texte prexente ce qu'est la decentralisation fiscale, fait ressortir ses forces et ses faiblesses et identifie les raisons de son succes, le tout dans le contexte de 8 pays en developement en faisant appel a de l'information sur l'Argentine, la Chine, la Colombie, l'Inde, l'Indonesie, le...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, even if Marx's solution to the transformation problem can be modified, his basic conclusions remain valid. The proposed alternative solution which is presented hare is based on the constraint of a common general profit rate in both spaces and a money...

In the presence of moral hazard, received agency theory predicts the "Marshallian inefficiency" of agricultural tenancy contracts, meaning that inputs per hectare on sharecropped land will differ from that on owned land. In this paper, we test for the presence of Marshallian inefficiency using a...

A contingent contract in a transferable utility game under uncertainty specifies an outcome for each possible state. It is assumed that coalitions evaluate these contracts by considering the minimal possible excesses. A main question of the paper concerns the existence and characterization of...

Critical-level generalized-utilitarian population principles with positive critical levels provide an ethically attractive way of avoiding the repugnant conclusion. We discuss the axiomatic foundations of critical-level generalized utilitarianism and investigate its relationship to the sadistic...