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The paper starts from a proposition of institutional design for climate policies made previously by David Bradford and labelled GPGP (Global Public good Purchase). The scheme is compared with other possible post- Kyoto schemes that are, or not, "Kyoto compatible". The comparison puts the...
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A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...
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remises en cause alors que les règles constitutionnelles permettant de penser la dynamique des institutions semblent avoir …
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aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect … information on the leader's type and the underlying capacity of institutions to monitor her. A misbehavior is then interpreted as …
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Le processus d'accession de l'Algérie à l'OMC, qui a débuté en 1987 dans le cadre du GATT, est de loin le plus long parmi les négociations en cours. Malgré ce délai, un certain nombre de problèmes importants doivent encore être réglés pour aboutir à un accord. Le passage du GATT à...
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North's evolving ideas about institutions and explains how North's work shaped the emerging field of new institutional …
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After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … importance of institutions for development. Other authors maintain that the type of constraints that the recent theoretical …
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The motivation for introducing statutory minimum wages in many developing countries is often threefold: poverty-reduction, social justice and growth. How well the policy succeeds in attaining these goals will depend on the national context and the numerous choices made when designing the policy....
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analyses les plus répandues tendent à négliger le rôle des institutions dans l'explication des épisodes d … données du MINEFI, « Profils institutionnels », examine le rôle de la qualité des institutions dans les crises bancaires … permet de valider une relation économique non triviale entre qualité des institutions et dynamique de crises bancaires …
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This paper provides new evidence on the linkages between a large array of institutional arrangements (on product, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution...
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