Despite important economic inequalities, people aged 50 to 65 are the wealthiest age group in France. So, this group is suitable to study the fitness of economic variables in segmentation. In order to explain 9 consumption behaviours, we compare the predictive power of 4 economic variables to 13...

Non seulement, les mouvements de prix sont susceptibles d'affecter le pouvoir d'achat des ménages, surtout lorsqu'il s'agit de biens de subsistance comme le riz à Madagascar, mais par le biais des changements de prix relatifs entre produits s'opère une redistribution du pouvoir d'achat. Des...

In many poor countries, the problem is not that governments do not invest, but that these investments do not create productive capital. So, the cost of public investments does not correspond to the value of the capital stocks. In this paper, we propose an original non parametric approach to...

Periods for european convergence Real convergence of european economies is disputed in recent studies which suggest an opposition between real and nominal convergence. This paper enlarges the perspective and considers real convergence over différents periods covering twelve decades. Results for...

The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...

The effect of debt on private investment is theoretically undetermined. Indeed, according to the theory, the relation between debt and private investment can either be negative (debt overhang) or positive (accelerator effect on economic growth, hence on private investment). Our study consists in...

L’objet de cette article est de porter une appréciation sur l’évolution de la compétitivité extérieure du Cameroun et donc sur sa politique de change. Il étudie la relation entre le système de change et les performances macro-économiques du Cameroun, pays membre de la Zone Franc sur...

Cet article propose une revue des études économétriques récentes ayant fait usage des statistiques désagrégées de la Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) aux Etats-Unis concernant les positions ouvertes sur les marchés dérivés du pétrole par type d'acteur. La distinction plus...

This thesis examines the impact of institutions, especially the financial institutions, on international trade and foreign direct investments. The first four chapters study the financial institutions and their impact on trade and international specialization. Specifically, the first chapter...