La France est l’un des pays où les politiques d’exemptions fiscales et d’exonérations de cotisations sociales sont les plus développées. Le coût budgétaire des dispositifs mis en place dans le seul domaine de la protection sociale et de l’emploi dépasse les 90 milliards d’euros...

Cette thèse vise à discuter de la pertinence de l'introduction de mécanismes de marché au sein du système éducatif. En particulier, elle s'interroge sur la capacité de ces mécanismes à améliorer la réussite des élèves. Elle montre dans une première partie que des mécanismes de...

This paper develops a new concept of separability with overlapping groups—latent separability. This is shown to provide a useful empirical and theoretical framework for investigating the grouping of goods and prices. It is a generalization of weak separability in which goods are allowed to...

Los estudios sobre desarrollo económico e historia económica se han ocupado durante mucho tiempo de las relaciones entre las fuerzas transparentes y supuestamente anónimas de los mercados, reglas y burocracias así como de la pertenencia a grupos tales como comunidades locales, asociaciones o...

It is often argued that a rational bubble, because it is positive, must increase the price of a stock. This argument is not valid in general: as soon as bubbles affect interest rates, the fundamental value of a stock depends on whether or not a bubble is present. The existence of a rational...

In this paper, we assess the extent to which multinational firms – in the first instance, the German ones – may adjust their international outsourcing over the business cycle in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For that purpose, we have used monthly data of production for the manufacturing...

Most applications of Nash bargaining over wages ignore between-employer competition for labor services and attribute all of the workers' rent to their bargaining power. In this paper, we write and estimate an equilibrium model with strategic wage bargaining and on-the-job search and use it to...

We construct and estimate an equilibrium search model with on–the–job–search. Firms make take–it–or–leave–it wage offers to workers conditional on their characteristics and they can respond to the outside job offers received by their employees. Unobserved worker productive...

La désindustrialisation de la France, et plus généralement les difficultés des secteurs exposés à la concurrence internationale, révèlent des tendances macroéconomiques et microéconomiques oeuvrant en France et en Europe depuis plus de dix ans. En effet, si le moment proprement...

Six years after the start of the Great Recession, the economic and socialsituation in the euro area is still depressed and fragile as shown by key macroeco-nomic indicators. Growth will not exceed 0.8% in 2014 after two consecutiveyears of recession. The risk of deflation is increasing as...