Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations.Recent work based on experimental evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the promotion system for French academics to look at...

In their current haste to deliver, the Doha negotiators seem to head for a package combining increased market access for “easy” products (mostly those with low or moderate tariffs) with broad exceptions in “difficult” sectors (mostly those with high tariffs). Such a mix may increase the...

We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how market size and ge- ography (the market sizes of and bilateral economic distances to trading partners) affect both a firm's exported product range and its exported product mix across market destinations (the dis- tribution...

In this paper, we try to show how the EU became a global ecological power, i.e. a power that influences environmental policies throughout the world. While the existing literature stresses the significance of normative power, regulatory politics and multi-level governance in this process, we...

Le PIB britannique a baissé de 0,2 % au quatrième trimestre 2011 après avoir augmenté de 0,5 % au trimestre précédent. Au-delà de ces fluctuations trimestrielles, la reprise a clairement marqué le pas au second semestre (...).

Compte rendu de la 9ème Conférence EUROFRAME qui s'est tenue à Kiel le 8 juin 2012.

En adoptant une monnaie commune, les membres de la zone euro ont choisi de déléguer leur politique monétaire à une banque centrale indépendante dont l'objectif principal était de garantir la stabilité des prix. En écartant définitivement les possibilités de dévaluation compétitive au...

Cette thèse est consacrée à l’analyse microéconométrique des effets de programmes d’allocations scolaires conditionnées, mis en œuvre dans des pays d’Amérique latine depuis le milieu des années 1990. La première partie étudie les impacts de ces programmes sur la scolarisation et...

We propose a jackknife for reducing the order of the bias of maximum likelihood estimates of nonlinear dynamic fixed-effect panel models.

Effectiveness of real-time electricity prices depends upon consumers being willing to subscribe to them and being able to curb their consumption levels. The present paper addresses both issues by considering consumers differentiated by their saving costs in the stylized real-time pricing model...