The persistence of high rates of unemployment calls for a discussion of the tax treatment of production factors. In France as in many other countries, material productive resources are subject to a legally recoverable tax, VAT, whereas unrecoverable obligatory social levies strike human...

The object of this article is to show the interactions between fiscal and monetary politics in a harmonization prospect within an economic integration. It tackles the cooperative and competitive behaviors of governments when setting an harmonization process. Whether the residence or the source...

The need to control tax competition has been debated at length within several international institutions. The question is of great importance for France, generally considered as poorly rated in this competition. The first part of this paper examines the messages delivered by the theoretical...

French Abstract: Le droit international des investissements est un domaine en pleine évolution, dont la réforme est apparue comme une nécessité, au risque de voir la protection internationale d’investissements s’effondrer. L’Union européenne, qui a commencé à négocier ses premiers...

French Abstract: Le thème central du livre est celui de la compétition fiscale qui oppose les États à l'échelle internationale. Abordant cet enjeu, Dietsch présente une solution interdisciplinaire au problème qui touche tant l'économie que le droit et la philosophie. Notre recension...

La place accordée aux villes dans la politique climatique découle d’un constat simple : elles abritent la majorité de la population mondiale, consomment les deux tiers de l’énergie mondiale et produisent plus de 70 % des émissions mondiales liées à cette consommation. Au niveau...

In this paper we analyze the impact on the demand of capital and labour of changes in their relative costs, using micro data. We especially highlight the role of the user cost of capital, for which we propose an original measure based on the cost of debt and the cost of equity. We hence take...

We estimate the technology of air pollution abatement, defined as a relation between conventional production, emissions and the inputs specifically allocated to the environmental protection. We use original firm-level data on both air emissions and investments in abatement equipment. We deal...

Participation is a savings from salaries device which aims at sharing firms benefits with workers. To do so, firms have to pay to their employees an amount whose computation depends on fiscal benefits and is based on a legal formula. As this device should be reformed, the authority in charge of...