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Was colonization very costly for the metropole? This view has been widely accepted among French historians even though little empirical evidence has been provided. Using original data from the colonial budgets of French West Africa (AOF) this paper provides new insights into the actual colonial...
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Since the independences, having a single currency is an official policy objective of West African countries. In April 2000, West African decisions-makers decided to accelerate the integration of the region by creating a second monetary zone in addition to the WAEMU (West African Economic and...
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still optimal if output stabilization mechanisms such as risk-sharing institutions, are in place to cope with asymmetric …
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land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) depreciations in the …) paradoxically, better institutions may exacerbate the deleterious impact of depreciations in developing countries. These hypotheses …
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analyses of Williamson and Granovetter, North's definition of institutions as "rules of the game" allows him to conceive of … institutions as the institutional foundations of the market and therefore as explanatory principles of historical dynamics. …
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Partant des conditions dans lesquelles s'élabore la " mesure " en matière responsabilité sociale, d'une part, et de l'insertion de la RSE dans la pensée stratégique, d'autre part, l'article montre que l'évaluation relève d'une logique de communication. Communication ne signifiant pas...
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rules and institutions they face. This allows to proxy the bailout expectations in both countries and their role in …
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This article analyses through a rent seeking model, the relationship between institutions' quality and natural … resources. Depending on the institutions quality, each country has a specific structural capacity to stand natural resources … resources begin to have a negative impact on institutions. As the stock of natural resources increases, this improves the …
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This paper provides new evidence on the linkages between a large array of institutional arrangements (on product, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution...
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This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...
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