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Trade, conflicts and political integration : explaining the heterogeneity of regional trade agreements

Vicard, Vincent - HAL - 2008

This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation...

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The U.S. economy today: between systemic crisis and permanent war

Herrera, Rémy - HAL - 2013

This paper studies the U.S. economy from an original point of view: that of the links existing between crisis and war … that are being implemented, as well as the "currency war" issue. Then, the central focus moves towards U.S. warfare as a … crisis and war exacerbe the current capitalist contradictions. …

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Morts pour la France: do demographic factors alone explain the regional disparities of the great war?

Gilles, Henri; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal; Parent, Antoine - HAL - 2013

This article delivers the first comprehensive analysis of the new database, 'Mémoire des hommes', which gathers more than 1 Million French soldiers officially recognized as dead for France during WW1. Crossing this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by...

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Disassembly and reassembly on digital technology and creative industries

Mangematin, Vincent; Sapsed, Jonathan; Schüßler, Elke - HAL - 2013

This paper analyses the dynamics of disassembly and reassembly unfolding in selected creative industries through the advent of digital technology. It argues that a full understanding of the much-observed organizational or sectoral lock-in effects on the one hand, and the possibilities for...

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Nonprofit Roles in For-profit Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy in France

Gautier, Arthur; Pache, Anne-Claire; Chowdhury, Imran - HAL - 2013

In this research project we aim to understand the role of institutional entrepreneurship across multiple levels - field, organization, and micro levels - in the institutionalization of a new professional role within organizations. Specifically, we study the rise of the "corporate philanthropy...

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Tax competition and the move from insurance to assistance

Zemmour, Michaël - HAL - 2012

The funding of social protection has strongly evolved in Bismarckian countries : whereas social protection used to rely on social contributions, since the 1990s most of the new expenditures have been funded through taxation, leading to a more balanced mix in the structure of social protection...

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Aligning modes of organization with technology: Critical transactions in the reform of infrastructures

Kunneke, Rolf; Groenewegen, John; Ménard, Claude - HAL - 2010

This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their reform. Since infrastructures are characterized by strong technical complementarities, we explore the resulting 'critical technical functions' that need to be performed in order...

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Political Partisanship and Financial Reforms in Advanced Countries

Darcillon, Thibault - HAL - 2011

Applying regressions on a sample of 18 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009 using new indicators, we find that right-wing governments liberalize more the financial sector that left-wing governments. We show that if a left-wing government accepts to liberalize the financial sector, an increase of...

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Disassembly and reassembly on digital technology and creative industries

Mangematin, Vincent; Sapsed, Jonathan; Schüßler, Elke - HAL - 2014

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Rationality, behavior, institutional and economic change in Schumpeter

Festré, Agnès; Garrouste, Pierre - HAL - 2008

In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to one of the meetings of a seminar including Talcott Parsons, Wassilly Léontief, Paul Sweezy and other Harvard scholars, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper...

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