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A Ricardian Model of the Tragedy of the Commons

Lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

This paper revisits the tragedy of the commons when agents have different capabilities in both production and encroachment activities, and can allocate their time between them. Under fairly general assumptions on production and encroachment technologies, an individual's expected income is convex...

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Regulation and Productivity in the Quebec Manufacturing Sector

Dufour, Charles; Lanoie, Paul; Patry, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

total factor productivity (TFP) in the Quebec manufacturing sector during the 1985-88 period. Our results show that … productivity growth, while the presence of mandatory prevention programs and of fines for infractions to OSH rules have led to an … increase in productivity growth. Interestingly, this is, to our knowledge, the first result showing that OSH regulation may …

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A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Evolution of the Canadian Service Productivity

Mohnen, Pierre; Raa, Thijs Ten - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

This paper measures factor productivities (and hence total factor productivity growth) directly on the basis of the …

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Production Technology, Information Technology, and Vertical Integration under Asymmetric Information

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

The paper addresses the effect of technological progress on the frontiers of the firm, building on transaction cost theory and agency theory. The model incorporates four types of costs: production, coordination, management, and transaction costs. The market has lower production costs, but higher...

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Emulation in Teams and Families

Léonard, Daniel; Long, Ngo Van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

We present a model where the probability distribution over the space of an agent's achievements depends not only on her ability and effort, but also on the goals set for her. The agent chooses her effort according to her utility net of perceived cost of effort. This cost is inversely...

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Ex Ante Incentives and Ex Post Flexibility

Boyer, Marcel; Robert, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996

Our objective in this paper is to illustrate and better understand the unavoidable arbitrage between incentives and flexibility in contexts of asymmetric information and to characterize the general features of an appropriate response to this challenge. We show that procedures and institutions in...

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Optimal Justice in a General Equilibrium Model with Non Observable Individual Productivities

Lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

In this general equilibrium model, justice and police institutions are treated as a mechanism that induces individuals to extend some desirable productive effort. This determines individual encroachment activities which in turn determine the proportion of aggregate production that fails to be...

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On the Relationship Between Financial Status and Investment in Technological Flexibility

Boyer, Marcel; Jacques, Armel; Moreaux, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

We study the interactions between equity financing and strategic technological flexibility choices of firms facing a threat of costly bankruptcy. We show that a firm's level of financial hardship is an important determinant of the level and type of investment it chooses to make, either a less...

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Sui Generis Rights on Folklore Viewed From a Property Rights Perspective

Mackaay, Ejan - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

This paper looks at sui generis rights claimed for the protection of folklore. Since rights should not be created in any which way if one is to avoid privileges and rent-seeking, it is important to be clear about design constraints stemming from such rights being species of property rights,...

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Les innovations en matière de politiques économiques et leur incidence sur la productivité Leçons pour le Québec

Aubert, Benoit A.; Landry, Simon; Patry, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …

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