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On the imaginative constructivist nature of design: a theoretical approach

Kazakci, Akin Osman - HAL - 2012

in the current design research. By contrast, in other fields such as Mathematics or Psychology, the notion of … approach. We consider the roots of constructivism in math- ematics, namely the Intuitionist Mathematics, in order to shed light … features of intuitionist constructivism is the intro- duction of incomplete objects into the heart of mathematics by means of …

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Measuring corruption: perception surveys or victimization surveys?

Roca, Thomas - HAL - 2011

While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have access to population's feeling about the corruption...

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Applying the gravity approach to sector trade: who bears the trade costs?

Cheptea, A.; Gohin, A.; Huchet-Bourdon, Maryline - HAL - 2008

Thanks to its empirical success, the gravity approach is widely used to explain trade patterns between countries. In this article we question the simple application of this approach to product/sector-level trade on two grounds. First, we demonstrate that the traditional Armington version of...

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Health expenditure growth : reassessing the threat of ageing

Dormont, Brigitte; Grignon, Michel; Huber, Hélène - HAL - 2006

In this paper we evaluate the respective effects of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on growth in health care expenditures. We use microdata, i.e. representative samples of 3441 and 5003 French individuals observed in 1992 and 2000. Our data provide detailed...

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Carbon Price Drivers: An Updated Literature Review

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2011

Since the creation of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in 2005, a burgeoning academic literature has emerged to identify the factors that shape the price of carbon, where one European Union Allowance is equal to one ton of CO2-equivalent emitted in the atmosphere. Thus, there...

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Contract  Dynamics :  Lessons  from  Empirical  Analyses

Chaudey, Magali - HAL - 2010

The recognition that contracts have a time dimension has given rise to a very abundant literature since the end of the 1980s. In such a dynamic context, the contract may take place over several periods and develop repeated interactions. Then, the principal topics of the analysis are commitment,...

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Healthy aging versus demographic trends: the French case, estimated by markovian microsimulation methods

Thiébaut, Sophie; Armstrong, Andrew; Ventelou, Bruno - HAL - 2009

The Objective of this paper is to test the consequences of changes in health status of future cohorts of French elderly on healthcare expenditures. We value the precise effect of epidemiological and life expectancy changes on health expenditures for 2025 by using a markovian microsimulation...

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TWO METHODS TO GENERATE CENTERED DISTRIBUTIONS CONTROLLING SKEWNESS AND KURTOSIS COEFFICIENTS

Treyens, Pierre-Eric - HAL - 2007

Whatever the econometric model which we study; any simulation requires a perfectly definite DGP. Thus, even if all software can generate standard normal distributions, we need methods not programmed to control higher moments. For all these methods, we need to estimate the parameters connected to...

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La recherche documentaire en Finance et en Comptabilité

Barbu, Elena - HAL - 2011

académiques et non-académiques en Finance et en Comptabilité. Notre travail consiste à les identifier et à en établir une … typologie facile à utiliser par le chercheur ou le professionnel en Finance et/ou en Comptabilité …

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Finance et accumulations dans le capitalisme post-industriel

Paulré, Bernard - HAL - 2008

capitalism can provide an explanation of the growth and the importance of finance. Three topics are considered:(1) the new forms … of accumulation in the knowledge capitalism, (ii) the current financialization and (iii) the co-evolution of finance and …

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