The main purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of fiscal cooperation on local taxation in a decentralized country, using the French experience in urban municipalities. We estimate a model of tax setting for local business tax using spatial and dynamic econometric techniques, for the...

We consider an oligopolistic industry including leveraged firms and unleveraged ones where firms are engaged in a sequential decision-making process. At the first stage of the game, a firm and her bank, considering the demand uncertainty and the distribution probability of the shock, evaluate a...

Dans le champ des valeurs publiques, la santé apparaît un peu particulière. En effet, s'il est admis en France que la santé devrait bénéficier à tous, il se trouve que la valeur de cette dernière est propre à chaque individu. Comme le note Bozeman (2007) les valeurs privées sont...

This paper presents the different utilitarian approaches to ethics. It stresses the influence of utilitarianism in economics in general and in welfare economics in particular. The key idea of the paper to explain the evolution from classical utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and...

La multiplication de Fab Labs, récents dispositifs d'innovation, au sein de nos sociétés, a apporté une nouvelle dynamique au travail de conception. Aujourd'hui cette pratique fait son apparition dans certaines grandes entreprises industrielles, il s'agit du Fab Lab interne. Ce dispositif...

This paper studies the problem of non-cooperative water allocation between heterogeneous communities embodied in an acyclic network of water sources. The extraction activity of a community has a negative impact on the extraction activity of its direct successors: it reduces the intensity of...

Les difficultés grandissantes de l'entreprise d'autobus X9 qui exerce son activité à la fois sur la ville de Ouaga et sur les liaisons interurbaines et internationales, ont amené les autorités Burkinabées à rechercher les solutions permettant la mise au point d'un système de transport...

Myrdal's works are usually analysed with a dual and separated point of view : on the one hand the methodological papers concerning the value problem and based on a strong non neutrality thesis ; on the other part the theoretical analysis concerning monetary theory and policy, with a Wicksellian...

The aim of the article is to understand how the drivers for investment decisions in the capacities of electricity production have evolved over time, from 1945 to the present day, in the specific context of Europe facing wars and conflicts, scientific and technological progress, strong political...

This article delivers the first comprehensive analysis of the new database, 'Mémoire des hommes', which gathers more than 1 Million French soldiers officially recognized as dead for France during WW1. Crossing this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by...