Il s'agit d'étudier, dans le domaine du transport des marchandises, les modifications institutionnelles et réglementaires et les évolutions qu'elles provoquent dans la stratégie des acteurs, tant privés que publics, ainsi que les modifications induites sur les territoires . Le travail sur...

Cet article a pour but d'examiner les facteurs susceptibles d'expliquer la présence de clauses comptables dans les contrats de prêts des petites entreprises canadiennes. L'étude empirique montre que le montant des prêts, le statut légal de la société et sa réputation affecte la présence...

This paper explores the role of corruption in a two-country model with fiscal spillovers. In the absence of cooperation on governance issues, countries always have a strategic incentive to appoint policymakers whose aversion to corruption is lower than average. An international agreement is a...

We analyze how investment subsidies can affect aggregate volatility and growth in economies subject to capital market imperfections. Within a model featuring both frictions on the credit market and unequal access to investment opportunities among individuals, we provide specific fiscal...

This paper offers a framework to study commitment and cooperation issues in games with multiple policymakers. To reconcile some puzzles in the recent literature on the nature of policy interactions among nations, we prove that games characterized by different commitment and cooperation schemes...

In this paper, we introduce input-specific externalities in a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and a finance constraint (Woodford (1986)). In contrast to existing papers, average labor and capital have not a positive impact on the total productivity of factors, but...

We assess fiscal performances in G7 and selected Latin American and Asian countries. We analyze two questions: (i) have public finances been sustainable? (ii) do countries follow more restrictive fiscal policies when debt starts to rise? We find that: (i) The traditional unit root tests often...