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Dès son arrivée aux affaires, l’administration Clinton a entrepris une politique d’amélioration de la compétitivité de l’économie américaine par la technologie : « Technology for Economic Growth ». Cette politique, qui doit beaucoup au vice président Al Gore, vise à réorienter...
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L’analyse des budgets et des politiques de la science et de la technologie ne doit plus aujourd’hui se cantonner à leur seule composante civile. Les budgets de recherche militaire ont, eux aussi, une influence forte sur ces politiques. Se pose en effet la question de la contribution de la...
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L'objectif de cet article est, à partir de l‟étude de deux cas réels de conception de programmes de recherche au sein de l‟Agence Nationale de la Recherche, de développer une analyse sur les trois approches – jeux d‟acteurs, instrumentation, et concepts et connaissances à l‟oeuvre...
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This article provides an overview of the literature on the psychological value of time. It discusses various determinants of the discount rate and the possibility of hyperbolic discounting. The historical approach helps us to trace the origins of the concept of psychological value of time. This...
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This paper derives the properties of the discount rate that should be applied to a public-sector project when the affected population has heterogeneous degrees of impatience. We show that, for any distribution of discount rates, the social discount rate has the following properties: it decreases...
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The objective of this paper is to adopt a general equilibrium model and determine the socially efficient discount factor and discount rate when there are heterogeneous anticipations about the future of the economy as well as heterogeneous time preference rates. Among others we tackle the...
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We address the problem of a social planner who, as in Weitzman (2001), gathers data on discount rates and wants to infer the socially efficient consumption discount rate. We propose an equilibrium approach and we analyse the expression and the properties of the resulting equilibrium discount...
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