This paper explores the conditions under which anti-corruption initiatives are launched in Bulgaria and their impact on local practices. An examination of the Toplofikacija affair suggests that efforts to curb illegal practices need to be understood as being at the intersection of several actors...

This article aims at studying the impact of return on education on criminal behaviour. A dynamic model of time allocation between investment in human capital, labour and criminal activity is developed, assuming that these activities are substitutable and endogenous. Our attention focuses on the...

This paper proposes a quantitative evaluation of the time-to-plan technology in order to investigate up to which point this mechanism could constitute a satisfactory alternative to the well-known capital adjustment cost technology. We show that the time-to-plan mechanism reproduces a realistic...

National accounts data indicate good performance since 1997. But how far can we trust this diagnostic given the weakness in official statistics? If the improvement in real growth reveals effective, do households benefit from it? To address these questions, this study analyzes reliable data from...

Introduction to the special issue of the EJHET in relation with the 2011 Fisher Conference organized in Lyon 2 University, France, by the laboratories LEDa, PHARE and TRIANGLE

When countries decide to coordinate and form a coalition, an outsider country can take advantage of the situation and gain more than an insider, hence creating a free-rider problem that could threaten the stability of the coalition. But as far as the Euro zone is concerned, the emphasis put on...

Our paper examines the long run relationship between economic growth and the current account balance equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period 1985 to 2010 as a whole is considered, but with different...