Efficient resources allocation in health area, where market failures are numerous and government regulations very large, is generally considered as requiring the support of cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness or cost-utility studies. Meanwhile many disappointments appear on the effective impact of...

While budgetary control is a potentially significant tool when the economic environment is unstable and unpredictable, the analysis of its development demonstrates that its use has dramatically expanded over the time since companies have been able to run forecasts. In order to help them develop...

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in...

The World Development Report of 2013 places labour in the spotlight of development research and policymaking today. Yet, there are few systematic analyses of the multifaceted nature of the link between labour and economic development. This Special Issue identifies some analytical and data-driven...

Véritable best-seller dans sa version originale, ce livre est un guide complet sur le marketing digital. Fondé sur les dernières recherches académiques et les meilleures pratiques professionnelles, il permet d'appréhender et d'exploiter les opportunités offertes par le marketing digital...

Le texte ci-dessous entend contribuer à enrichir le débat sur une des principales innovations qui aient été proposées ces dernières années pour le système de santé. Ce débat doit porter sur la pertinence du constat préalable, sur la logique du projet des Réseaux de Soins Coordonnés...

Relying on conditional entropy and on the notion of information transfer, we investigate price relationships in the most important commodity futures market: the American crude oil market. We first show that the information shared by futures contracts with different delivery dates increases...

The present paper is a synthetic version of the extensive study An Analysis of the Obstacles to the Development of a Sustainable Biodiesel Industry in Argentina [1][Asal and Marcus, 2005a], conducted in Argentina from October to December 2005 in collaboration between the University of...

This paper studies the impact of earthquakes on farm business assets in rural Indonesia. Using a panel fixed effects model, we evaluate if the negative consequences of earthquakes extend beyond the immediate event into the medium and long-term. Our results suggest that rural households were able...