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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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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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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 … legitimacy and analyses the legitimacy of the International Standard Accounting Board (IASB). …

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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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Defensive strategies in the quality ladders

Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2008

This paper analyses the potentially defensive behaviour of successful innovators and its effect on aggregate R&D effort. It proposes a quality-ladders model that endogenously determines leader's technology advantages and who innovate (the leader firm or its competitors). Regulation can have...

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Credit constraints and the cyclicality of R&D investment: Evidence from France

Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Berman, Nicolas; … - HAL - 2008

We use a French firm-level data set containing 13,000 firms over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is...

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Sustainable growth under pollution quotas: optimal R&D, investment and replacement policies

Boucekkine, Raouf; Hritonenko, Natali; Yatsenko, Yuri - HAL - 2011

We consider an optimal growth model of an economy facing an exogenous pollution quota. In the absence of an international market of pollution permits, the economy has three instruments to reach sustainable growth: R&D to develop cleaner technologies, investment in new clean capital goods, and...

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Les motivations de l'inscription des investissements en R&D à l'actif : Divulgation volontaire d'informations ou gestion des résultats ?

Azouz, Samah Rebai - HAL - 2011

Inscrire la R&D en charges de l'exercice ou à l'actif du bilan est un choix qui s'offre aux dirigeants des entreprises françaises. A travers ce choix, se dessinent deux stratégies managériales différentes, mais non mutuellement exclusives, à savoir diffuser plus d'informations sur les...

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