This article extends earlier efforts at redating the US business cycles for the 1790–1928 period using the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) constructed by Johnson and Williamson (2007). We compare the alternative chronology with those of the NBER and Davis (2006) as well as Romer (1994) for...

In this paper, we aim at assessing Markov-switching and threshold models in their ability to identify turning points of economic cycles. By using vintage data that are updated on a monthly basis, we compare their ability to detect ex-post the occurrence of turning points of the classical...

We provide a quantitative assessment of welfare costs of fluctuations in a search model with financial frictions. The matching process in the labor market leads positive shocks to reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. We show that the magnitude of this non-linearity is...

This article explores the role of trend shocks in explaining the specificities of business cycles in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using the methodology introduced by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007) [Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend Journal of Political Economy 115(1)]....

We present a methodology to assess the profitability of a capital intensive industry over a business cycle and to make projections of profitability for different investment strategies under various hypothetical scenarios for environmental and competition policies. The methodology is applied to...

Cette étude de cas explore l'appropriation du management de projet par les deux partenaires d'une coopération de recherche franco-néerlandaise. A l'aide d'une approche ethnographique, la recherche met en lumière la logique qui sous-tend le management de projet ainsi que les logiques...

A partir de 2003, les entreprises françaises sont tenues de divulguer le montant des rémunérations de leurs auditeurs, mais de nombreuses entreprises ont décidé de divulguer volontairement ces informations dans leur rapport annuel 2002. Dans ce travail, nous tentons d'expliquer le montant...

Selon les règles comptables françaises, les sociétés ont la possibilité de " capitaliser " leurs frais de R&D sous certaines conditions. En analysant les rapports annuels 2000 des sociétés non financières appartenant à l'indice SBF 250, nous avons tenté de comprendre pourquoi certaines...