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Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2012

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non veriﬁable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We ﬁnd that not all the...

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - HAL - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...

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On Political Regime Changes in Arab Countries

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2014

We develop a dynamic game to provide with a theory of Arab spring-type events. We consider two interacting groups, the elite vs the citizens, two political regimes, dictatorship vs a freer regime, the possibility to switch from the first to the second regime as a consequence of a revolution, and...

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Managing grasslands biodiversity at a landscape level to foster ecosystem services in intensive cereal systems: from ecological knowledge to collective action

Bretagnolle, Vincent; Berthet, Elsa - HAL - 2012

Effective solutions for integrating agricultural development and conservation of biodiversity at the landscape scale remain to be identified. We present a case study in an intensively farmed French cereal plain, where the reintroduction of grasslands has been proposed first for conservation...

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The Environmental Violence of Volatility

Bouleau, Nicolas - HAL - 2013

Since the Brundtland report in 1987, at the start of the series of United Nations Conferences on the Environment and Development, the world population has grown by more than it was in the time of Adam Smith. Oil consumption has increased by 40% and the trend is similar for other exhaustible...

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Au cœur de l'économie politique, la dette - l'approche de J. R. Commons

Maucourant, Jérôme - HAL - 1993

La rupture faite par Commons, bien que peu revendiquée, est fondamentale. L'incertitude et la rareté nécessitent l … travaux de Commons en partant notamment de certaines critiques que celui-ci adresse implicitement à la "Fable du Troc". Son … création et destruction de celle-ci devient une clef essentielle dans le jeu des interdépendances sociales. Mais, pour Commons …

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Polanyi on institutions and money

Maucourant, Jérôme - HAL - 2001

of institutionalist thought founded by economists such as Mitchell, Commons and Veblen are in agreement the reflexions of …

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Les projets de " flexi-sécurité ": capitalisme " idéal " vs " capitalisme raisonnable " ?

Lavialle, Christophe - HAL - 2012

pensons qu'elle pourrait être avantageusement rapprochée de la vision qui était celle de Commons du capitalisme raisonnable. …

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« Polanyi on institutions and money »

Maucourant, Jérôme - HAL - 2001

The aim of this contribution is two-fold: On the one hand, we wish to show that Polanyi considers institution to be a concept, as is clearly demonstrated by an analysis of the role of money in his work. In this perspectives, it seems relevant to stress the theoretical similarities between some...

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Equilibrium Uniqueness in Network Games with Strategic Substitutes

Rébillé, Yann; Richefort, Lionel - HAL - 2012

A local public goods game in weighted and directed networks is analyzed. Individual efforts are imperfect substitutes, players' preferences are heterogeneous and local externalities are non-uniform and asymmetric. Sufficient conditions under which the game admits a unique equilibrium are...

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