Après avoir illustré comment la science économique envisage l'enjeu spatial, on analyse l'innovation majeure apportée par la globalisation : là où le commerce international se heurtait à un « effet-frontière » relativement identifiable et linéaire (un tarif douanier), il est avant...

Under high inflation, money’s dual function as a unit of account and a unit of payment are split and transferred on alternate supports—either a foreign currency (as in Argentina) or domestic indices (as in Brazil). This paper compares the 1994 Brazilian Plano Real, which rebuilt a working,...

The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...

Under high inflation, money experiences a process of institutional fragmentation: the unit of account and the unit of payment are split and transferred on alternate supports, either a foreign currency as for instance in Argentina, or domestic indices as in Brazil. Since the early 1970s’, this...

Since the early 1998 paper by LLSV, a growing body of research has argued that “legal origins” have a country-specific, time-invariant effect on property rights and economic development. Following the methodology of LLSV, an original data-base of 51 bankruptcy laws has been built: it ranges...

Under high inflation, money experiences a process of institutional fragmentation: the unit of account and the unit of payment are split and transferred on alternate supports, either a foreign currency as for instance in Argentina, or domestic indices as in Brazil. Since the early 1970s', this...

Contribution du numéro spécial des Dossiers du Ceri "La régulation financière globale : quels acteurs ?".

Since the early 1997 paper by La Porta et al., a growing body of research has argued that ‘legal origins’ have a country-specific, time-invariant effect on property rights and economic development. Following the methodology of La Porta et al., an original database of 51 bankruptcy laws has...

Cette contribution à l'édition 2012 du "Ceriscope" propose une visite guidée simple des principaux concepts et des principaux axes de la recherche économique sur les liens entre éducation et inégalités. Elle est centrée principalement sur l'expérience des pays en développement et...

It is argued that the successive regimes for restructuring sovereign debts, since the early 20th century have been shaped by the articulation of three institutional functions: information gathering and economic expertise, then third-party mediation, lastly policy enforcement, also called...