This paper is the first result of a project aiming at understanding the history of bankruptcy law from an empirical …

19 ème siècle (a history of the French capital market in the 19th century). In this chapter, we discuss the changes in …

Great-Britain, France and United States, she suggested that American economic performance was based on a « democratization …

This chapter examines the relations between training, skills, credentials and the wage in France, Spain and the United …

The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no … convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This … transition-era France, 1750-1850. The results show that it was the richest groups who reduced their family size first and that …

characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …

piracy on the cultural industry. The diversity of data collected and methodologies used by empirical studies make it … piracy which may be due, for example, to the use of Internet access as a proxy for piracy. On the other hand, the problem of … an underestimation of the impact of piracy. As a result, the major finding of empirical works about piracy could be the …

characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …

organized in a "well-coordinated" cartel. After discussing the way the cartel reacts to any auction mechanism, we show that if … the cartel pay to get an efficient allocation or randomly allocating the item. We then discuss the way to implement this … mechanism, so that it enables a fair amount of competition if the seller made a mistake and the buyers don't collude. We find …