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Technical Foundations to Cut Down Administrative Red Tape: The Case of the Canton of Vaud

Glassey, Olivier; Pichaureaux, Sophie - HAL - 2011

In this paper, we describe an analysis framework we developed in order to analyze the implementation of a simplification strategy in a Swiss Canton. This strategy is based on a participatory analysis of services and on the development of eGovernment foundations through the use of open standards...

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International accounting standardization : the institutional legitimacy of a private standards setters

Heem, Gregory - HAL - 2007

The objective of this paper is to analyse the sources of legitimacy of the producing organizations of accounting standards. Firstly, we examine the need for harmonisation of accounting standards in particular to maintain the confidence of investors and savers in the financial and economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898794

Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.

JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative...

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Nuclear reactors' construction costs: The role of lead-time, standardization and technological progress

Berthélemy, Michel; Rangel, Lina Escobar - HAL - 2013

endogeneity, using expected demand variation as an instrument. We argue that benefits from nuclear reactor program standardization …, we show that the standardization of nuclear reactors under construction has an indirect and positive effect on …

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Standardization versus Preference for Variety in Linear Cournot Oligopoly

Deroian, Frédéric; Gannon, Frédéric - HAL - 2007

We consider a Cournot oligopoly setting in which consumers have an intrinsic preference for variety, while unit production costs of firms increase with the number of goods they produce. This environment exhibits a general under-provision of variety with respect to social welfare.

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STANDARDIZATION VERSUS PREFERENCE FOR VARIETY IN LINEAR COURNOT OLIGOPOLY

Deroïan, Frédéric; Gannon, Frédéric - HAL - 2007

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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Accumulation of Capital: The Role of Heterogeneous Labor Productivity

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - HAL - 2012

We examine the determinants of income inequality and mobility in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply. Individuals …

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Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007

level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …

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Des figures et des chiffres : Analyse de Pour une révolution fiscale, de Landais, Piketty et Saez (2011)

Guiard, Yves - HAL - 2012

On the website of their recent book Pour une Revolution Fiscale, Landais, Piketty and Saez (2011) have provided the public with free access to all their quantitative data, inviting the readership to critically appraise and publicly discuss their work. Unfortunately, the book's graphical...

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Utilitarianism or Welfarism: Does it Make a Difference?

Gravel, Nicolas; Moyes, Patrick - HAL - 2011

We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition which, if satisfied by a class of...

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