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ICT and Ecology: In favour of research based on the Responsibility principle

Rodhain, Florence; Fallery, Bernard - HAL - 2009

The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Information Systems and Ecology …

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I.C.T. and Environment : Bad Assumptions and Recent Hypotheses

Rodhain, Florence; Fallery, Bernard - HAL - 2011

The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information Communication Technology. In the first part, we will present, through a review of the literature, the rather negative role played by ICT on the environment: paper, transportation,...

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Firms and their Responsibility towards Nature

Bazin, Damien - HAL - 2005

Corporate social responsibility is increasingly discussed in economics and management studies today. Corporate leaders often make use of this concept, which finds its origins in philosophy, to analyse the normative behaviour of their companies. But what exactly is corporate responsibility? Is it...

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Polluting Industrialization

Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011

link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325714

Préferences psychologiques et nouvelle économie politique

Billot, Antoine; Marlats, Chantal - HAL - 2009

First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … collective impact of altruism, social loyalty, intrinsic reciprocity and so forth . …

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Migrant wages, remittances and recipient labour supply in a moral hazard model

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...

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Long-Term Care, Altruism and Socialization

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2011

-run prevalence of family altruism in the population. That evolutionary effect questions the desirability of the LTC public provision … altruistic and non-altruistic agents, and where the transmission of (non) altruism takes place through a socialization process à …

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Individual preferences and the distribution of wealth

Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - HAL - 2005

degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of family and non family altruism. Short-term impatience and non family … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … with the degree of family altruism (wealth intended for bequests). The way preferences are measured allows to get rid of …

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Do tropical typhoons smash community ties? Theory and evidence from Vietnam

Zylberberg, Yanos - HAL - 2010

Natural disasters trigger large inequalities between affected households and the rest of the community. The extent to which villages compensate for these shocks allegedly depends on the pressure imposed by the group of needy families. I model two major threats to redistribution - (i) the...

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Mortality, family and lifestyles

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

While there is a large empirical literature on the intergenerational transmission of health and survival outcomes in relation to lifestyles, little theoretical work exists on the long-run prevalence of (un)healthy lifestyles induced by mortality patterns. To examine that issue, this paper...

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