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Overcoming inertia: insights from evolutionary economics into improved energy and climate policy
Lazaric, Nathalie; Maréchal, Kevin - HAL - 2010
The mainstream view in economics has been a key factor in designing climate policies. Given that the controversy over the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791603
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Stratégies évolutionnaires dans un modèle macroéconomique dynamique et complexe peuplé d'agents hétérogènes, autonomes et concurrents
Seppecher, Pascal - HAL - 2010
Suivant la feuille de route tracée par Joan Robinson, nous avons construit un modèle d'économie monétaire de production avec monnaie endogène, peuplé d'agents hétérogènes, autonomes et concurrents. Dans ce papier, on se propose de relâcher l'hypothèse d'entreprises orientées vers la...
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Routines during an organizational change: a study on dynamics and its effects
Peigné, Paul - HAL - 2013
In their quest for deeper insight into organizations, for some years now a great deal of researchers have focused on the concept of routines. Routines enable researchers to make out some of the dynamics which govern the organization, by fostering stability or , on the contrary, favoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898790
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Transportation Conditions and Access to Services in a Context of Urban Sprawl and Deregulation. The Case of Dar es Salaam
Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; Pochet, Pascal - HAL - 2003
Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790604
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Meta-analysis of travel of the poor in West and Southern african cities
Behrens, Roger; Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; … - HAL - 2004
to transport planners and policy-makers in Africa to bridge the French-English language divide. The aim of the paper is … Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and South Africa, enables a meta-analysis of African travel survey findings amongst low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790719
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Liberalization and globalization: Trojan Horse for the cotton traders' domination in Francophone Africa
Fok, Michel - HAL - 2006
The Francophone African Countries (FACs) exclusively fight for the abolition of subsidies applied by a few big cotton producing countries. Although legitimate, it is doubtful that the outcome could be so much satisfactory because subsidizing countries have room in re-arranging measures of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791533
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Discurso y realidad. Relaciones comerciales y cooperación entre Brasil y África
Díaz, Manuel Burón; Mogro-Moreno, Paola Solíz - HAL - 2013
En un mundo progresivamente multipolar, y por tanto ante un sistema internacional cada vez más desordenado, Brasil, así como otras potencias emergentes, buscan diversificar sus relaciones comerciales ante el declive de Europa y el auge de China. De este novedoso reajuste en el tablero...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701841
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323941
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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction
Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012
This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647496
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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior
Dejardin, Marcus - HAL - 2011
entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of … entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as … the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278310