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A two-country model of high skill migration with public education

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a two-country model of migration in a transferable skill sector, where workers education is provided free of charge by governments. We study firstly the non-cooperative equilibrium where the poor country decides on the education level and the rich country decides on the...

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A … government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy …. Parties may be advised to adjust their preferences, i.e., to change their evaluation concerning some government(s) or/and the …

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At stake with implementation: trials of explicitness in the description of the state

Muniesa, Fabian; Linhardt, Dominique - HAL - 2009

We develop the notion of "trials of explicitness" as a conceptual instrument for the study of the state from a pragmatist, sociological angle. We present results from an empirical case study on how state practitioners (i.e. actors in charge of expressing, evaluating, executing or reforming the...

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Decentralization in Africa and the nature of local governments' competition: evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire; Foucault, … - HAL - 2011

Without denying particular dimensions of the decentralisation in Sub-Saharan countries, this paper applies standard reasoning from the fiscal federalism literature to a developing country and tests the existence of strategic interactions among local Beninese governments, called 'communes'. We...

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Comparing and combining energy saving policies : Will proposed residential sector policies meet French official targets ?

Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan; Guivarch, Céline; Quirion, … - HAL - 2011

additive ; (iii) a combination of all policies fails to meet Government conservation targets. …

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Should a Non-Rival Public Good Always Be Provided Centrally?

Gravel, Nicolas; Poitevin, Michel - HAL - 2014

This paper discusses the problem of optimal design of a jurisdiction structure from the view point of a welfarist social planner when households with identical utility functions for non-rival public good and private consumption have private information about their contributive capacities. It...

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Choosing choices: Agenda selection with uncertain issues

Godefroy, Raphaël; Perez-Richet, Eduardo - HAL - 2010

This paper studies selection rules i.e. the procedures committees use to choose whether to place an issue on their agenda. The main ingredient of the model is that committee members are uncertain about their final preferences at the selection stage: they only know the probability that they will...

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The value of lies in an ultimatum game with imperfect information

Besancenot, Damien; Dubart, Delphine; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2012

Humans often lie strategically. We study this problem in an ultimatum game involving informed proposers and uninformed responders, where the former can send an unverifiable statement about their endowment. If there are some intrinsically honest proposers, a simple message game shows that the...

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A price uncertainty principle and the existence of sequential equilibrium : (I) A numerical example

Boisdeffre, Lionel De - HAL - 2010

In three related papers, we consider a pure exchange financial economy, where agents may observe private information signals, form private anticipations and face an "exogenous uncertainty", on the future state, and an "endogenous uncertainty", on the future prices. At a sequential equilibrium,...

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Negotiating remedies : revealing the merger efficiency gains

Cosnita, Andreea; Tropeano, Jean-Philippe - HAL - 2005

This paper aims to contribute to the normative economic analysis of mergers control by taking into account the possible efficiency gains for the design of structural merger remedies. We show that a larger asset transfer should be requested from a less efficient merged firm than from a more...

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