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questioning the structure of their entire logistics chain. This is due to the emergence of new actors (i.e., large retailers); the … signals that have caused companies to question their logistics strategies as shown in the ISLI survey. …
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Frey, Herbst and Walter (2007) (FHW), we assess herding by French equity mutual funds between 1999 and 2005. We show that …
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Value and growth investment styles are a concept which has gained extreme popularity over the past two decades, probably due to its practical efficiency and relative simplicity. We study the mechanics of different factors' impact on excess returns in a multivariate setting. We use a panel of...
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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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of a contributory education scheme: The equity of access to higher education, the incentives for students and university … to be efficient, as well as the contributory equity are discussed. The article proposes finally to assess, for France …
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The starting point of this paper is to consider that there is no general answer to the question of the equity of urban … the level of traffic reduction induced by tolling. Stringent tolls are more favourable to low-income motorists. Equity … improves their situation while an exemption for Paris residents is neutral. Surprisingly, it matters little for social equity …
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framework combines the dimensions of economic efficiency (to manage the demand efficiently), territorial equity (guarantee of … accessibility), horizontal equity (user-pays principle), and vertical equity (welfare of most underprivileged). The application of … efficiency and equity generally reinforce themselves in their negative or positive aspects. This analysis also showed that these …
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"?The central issue is that of equity, in a context of conflict of interests, where all the countries do not contribute to GHG … possible cost.Our paper addresses the two inter-related issues of equity and cost-efficiency: we examine the conditions in …
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, do assessment tools enable the evaluation of social equity? In the French case, assessment methodologies - cost … for each urban transport system user, analysis does not linger over individual impacts. The question of social equity is …
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The paper investigates a climate-economy model with an iso-elastic welfare function in which one parameter gamma measures relative risk-aversion and a distinct parameter rho measures resistance to intertemporal substitution. We show both theoretically and numerically that climate policy responds...
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