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Bargaining on law and bureaucracies: A constitutional theory of development
Sgard, Jérôme; Schemeil, Yves; Brousseau, Eric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
The process of development is linked to the rise of an integrated and competitive economy and polity that allow a maximal division of labor and innovation. This process relies on two intertwined dynamics. First, in the establishment of the rule of law, legal instruments are appropriated by those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706831
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Property rights on the internet: is a specific institutional framework needed?
Brousseau, Eric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004
Digital technologies allow the implementation of more decentralized Property Rights (PR) systems as compared to those traditionally set-up by public authorities at the national level. The self-implementation of exclusive rights of use over information and the design of self-regulation by virtual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765454
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Delegation without borders: On individual rights, constitutions and the global order
Brousseau, Eric; Sgard, Jérôme; Schemeil, Yves - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Political and economic rights are envisaged as the outcome of an ongoing bargain between citizens and their rulers. Over the long run, this constitutive process shapes the development of both the economy and the state. Globalization, however, corresponds to a period where both the market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706808
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Federalism, separatism and international trade
Daumal, Marie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
two possible mechanisms through which political fragmentation of nation-states, namely federalism, might impact positively … regions in federal countries. We use a gravity equation running panel regressions to estimate the impact of federalism on … potentially correlated with federalism, a federalist system is found to increase international trade. We also find that separatism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707797
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Conclusion: Governance and Environment: Policy Challenges and Research Questions
Brousseau, Eric; Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; Jouvet, Pierre-André - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s many political initiatives have been taken, many governance experiments have been run, and a large multidisciplinary field of research has opened up. The aim of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721348
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Introduction: Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms
Brousseau, Eric; Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; Jouvet, Pierre-André - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The interdependency of socio-ecological systems and the increased reach of human activity have led to major political and scientific challenges in the governance of environmental resources. This chapter reviews the state of our knowledge on the matter. The chapter begins by discussing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721350
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To Have and Have Not”: Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria,
Margolis, David N.; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015
In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two … significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228185
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Migrants' Home Town Associations and Local Development in Mali
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Mercier, Marion; Gubert, Flore; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015
This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228193
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Return Migrants in Western Africa: Characteristics and Labour Market Performance
Robilliard, Anne-Sophie; Gubert, Flore; de Vreyer, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706765
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Migration, Remittances and Moral Hazard. Evidence from the Kayes Area (Western Mali)
Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000
This article uses recent survey data from the Kayes area (Western Mali) to estimate the effect of migration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706768