A public decision maker needs to decide to allocate some subsidy towards the conditions for public transportation or for private transportation. If she wants to improve the collective welfare of the community based on the individual preferences between public and private transportation, she...

Using nonparametric estimation techniques adapted from Guerre et al. [2000], we infer cost distributions and informational rents, from 666 snow removal contracts offered for tender by the City of Montreal. Our results are compatible with standard received theory of competitive auctions: there is...

French Abstract: Le monde traverse une crise sans précédent qui mêle finance, économie, social et culture. Si nous ne voulons pas être rejetés de ce monde, il faut alors questionner l’utopie fondatrice de nos sociétés modernes. Cette utopie a fondé la reconnaissance de la liberté...

Presentation of the PLS regression

La régulation des émissions azotées dans le bassin d’un cours d’eau s'inscrit généralement dans un cadre institutionnel où les objectifs, en terme de valeurs maximales et de valeurs guides, sont donnés par la législation. Le caractère diffus d'une partie des émissions et les...

English Abstract: In balancing international financial data (Lane and Milesi-Ferretti, 2006), contrary to most matrix adjustment problems, the only constraints are that, for any given category of assets and liabilities, the sum of assets over countries must equal the sum of liabilities....

On oppose souvent l’interventionnisme étatique français à l’autonomie tarifaire allemande dans l’analyse des systèmes de relations professionnelles. Le rapport au politique des acteurs de cette sphère, notamment telle qu’il émerge d’une comparaison des dynamiques...

Bankruptcy choices condition, i) the efficiency of liquidation or reorganization decisions, ii) the incen-tives delivered to the debtor-in-place and its creditors. On the one hand, there is no incompatibility between a pro-creditors system and the possibility to reach informal agreements and a...

Although few citizens outside of the livestock industry have heard about this veterinary drug, ractopamine is set to become not only the source of public concern but also the trigger of another endless transatlantic trade dispute. After years of scientific and political deadlock, the Codex...