Le problème de la coordination décentralisée des comportements individuels et de l'ajustement de l'économie vers un équilibre spécifique continue d'entretenir la scission classico-keynésienne : fonctionnant hors de l'équilibre ou possédant des capacités naturelles de sélection,...

We study the formation of mutual insurance networks in a model where every agent who obtains more resources gives a fixed amount of resources to all agents who have obtained less resources. The low resource agent must be directly linked to the high resource agent to receive this transfer. We...

In this article I address the question of the moral legitimacy of paternalism. Paternalism is considered illegitimate a) when it acts under false pretenses to satisfy the interest of the paternalist agent, b) when it violates the individual autonomy of the people interfered with and c) when it...

Premières pistes de réflexion dans le cadre d'une recherche doctorale sur les effets de la formation continue dans les basculements de trajectoires professionnelles.

L'article étudie les déterminants de la production scientifique des enseignant-chercheurs français en économie en mobilisant des données originales issues des candidatures aux campagnes nationales 2009 et 2010 de la " Prime d'Excellence Scientifique ". L'échantillon constitué à partir de...

According to the seminal Cost Recovery Theorem the revenues from congestion tolls pay for the capacity costs of an optimal-sized facility if capacity is perfectly divisible, and if user costs and capacity costs have constant scale economies. This paper extends the Theorem to long-run uncertainty...

In this article we focus on carbon price dynamics, more speci…cally the impact of a policy envisaged by the European Commission to increase the CO2 price. This policy consists of removing a share of the allowances allocated for a period in order to reallocate some or all of them during the...

The article aims at assessing the effectiveness of a role-play in addressing two concerns: clarifying the concept of sustainable development and teaching sustainable development issues. The effectiveness is gauged by surveying students to reveal how the game matches a set of "significant...

This paper explores intergenerational educational mobility for three groups of individuals: Christian natives, Christian immigrants and Muslim immigrants. We develop an econometric specification for educational attainment which shows that a higher level of parent education increases differently...

The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that...