La plupart des travaux récents sur la diffusion internationale des institutions se sont intéressés à la manière dont les pratiques se diffusaient globalement et à la façon d'éviter l'affrontement avec les institutions locales en place, en adaptant ces pratiques. Ce faisant, aucun de ces...

This paper investigates the impact of complementarity reforms on growth and how it depends on GDP per capita. Based on reform data for six policy areas compiled from various sources during the period 1994-2006 for over 100 countries, we compute composite indicators of reform level and...

The key role of institutions for economic performance has recently been acknowledged in the economic policy debate. This paper aims at pointing out the main policy lessons and the recommendations to be drawn from New Institutional Economics (NIE), when considering the organization of markets. We...

Countries referred to as “developing” are being urged more and more to reform their “investment climate”. It is often said that a “good” investment climate leads to both increased economic growth and reduced poverty. In these countries, corrupt government, clientelism, a lack of...

In his 1903 thesis - “Money and credit instruments in their relation to general prices” - published in 1907, E.W. Kemmerer argued that the market prices of goods cannot be determined by the equations of demand and supply of goods without introducing the “missing” equilibrium equation of...

The 2007-2009 crisis has led to a return of Keynesian analyses and policies. The paper analyses the contradictions between a structural crisis, the implementation at a very large scale of Keynesian policies and the denial to undermine financial capitalism. The crisis has led the French...