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This paper examines Africa's and Middle East's growth performance for the period 1990- 2005. It employs a Bayesian Model Averaging method that constructs estimates as a weighted average of Spatial Autoregressive estimates for every possible combination of included variables. One of the results...
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French pensioners benefit from tax deductions. In the context of pension system reform and given the impact of the current financial and economic crisis on government deficits, the tax preference given to senior citizens raises questions. Lavigne (2006) asks, "Should we give tax benefits to the...
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L'avènement des produits en libre-service conduit les consommateurs à exercer davantage leur sens tactile. Si les recherches en marketing sensoriel ont montré l'intérêt de laisser les consommateurs manipuler librement les produits, il convient de nuancer ce constat. De récentes recherches...
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Les Bureaux d'Etudes sont l'objet de critiques pour leur faible capacité à innover et gérer le renouvellement des objets qu'ils conçoivent et des compétences associées. Pourtant l'examen de la genèse au XIXème siècle des premiers Bureaux d'Etudes fait apparaître des capacités de...
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The current paper offers a perspective on what we term conceptive intelligence - the capacity of an agent to continuously think of new object definitions (tasks, problems, physical systems, etc.) and to look for methods to realize them. The framework, called a Brouwer machine, is inspired by...
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La libéralisation des services publics renvoie souvent, implicitement ou explicitement, à l'idée de rationalisation de la gestion et de l'implication croissante des opérateurs privés. Elle tend par conséquent à s'imposer comme un modèle universel. Depuis quelques années, même si cette...
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In this paper, we propose a parametric model for multivariate distributions. The model is based on distortion functions, i.e. some transformations of a multivariate distribution which permit to generate new families of multivariate distribution functions. We derive some properties of considered...
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For a certain number of years now, France has been undergoing an ageing of its population. This ageing, which is going to become greater and continue over the coming decades is accompanied by profound modifications in the life styles of retired people. They are more and more motorised in the...
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This paper reports some preliminary experimental results as regards the shape of the utility function for losses when elicited over a wide interval of consequences. Individual utility functions are elicited using the trade-off method, which, unlike standard elicitation procedures, is robust to...
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Un exemple très intéressant de projet d'école d'administration proposé par l'un des grands fondateurs du droit administratif au XIXe siècle, siècle où ont lieu des débats incessants et infructueux sur l'organisation des études administratives et la création d'une Ecole...
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