Le rapport prend en considération un éventail d'indicateurs non économiques parmi lesquels diverses mesures de transformations démographiques, telles que les tendances de la mortalité, de la fécondité, du mariage et du divorce. Ces changements peuvent présenter de l'intérêt par...

We use the "symbolic contagion" concept (Rozin and Nemeroff, 1994) and its adaptation to the food modernization framework by Fischler (1994) to analyse the interactions between quality signs and points of sales -street vending, formal and informal open-air market and supermarket- in consumers...

Presque tous les travailleurs ont un niveau d’instruction correspondant au moins au deuxième cycle de l’enseignement secondaire, et l’enseignement professionnel contribue à assurer aux jeunes un passage à l’emploi parmi les plus réussis de la zone de l’OCDE. L’enseignement...

Lors de leur réunion du 3 novembre à Nice, les dirigeants du G20 ont adopté dix principes de haut niveau sur la protection des consommateurs dans le domaine des services financiers. Ces principes ont pour objectif de participer au rétablissement de la confiance des consommateurs et à...

The continuous transformation the economy faces, requires the existence of an educated population, able to create and disseminate knowledge. Moreover, the governments dealing with a rapidly increasing number of students, in the conditions of limited resou

The topic of this paper is public financing of university education in Quebec, which is analysed from the point of view of scarcity: even governments must submit to this reality. Our argument is built around three questions: How much should society spend? How should the burden be distributed...

In this contribution, we study the organization and the funding mechanisms of higher education. We show that higher education is organized and funded very differently among OECD countries. We put forward the fact that this heterogeneity in its organization and funding corresponds to different...

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...

During the last decade, there was a growing body of case law of lender liability in the United States and France. This doctrine, whose prime goal is to protect investors against opportunism by banks, limits the involvement of banks in the management of commercial firms. This article explores the...