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French Abstract: L'article effectue un survol de la littérature analysant les effets des impôts sur le revenu, sur l'offre de travail des femmes mariées. Les impôts introduisent des non-linéarités et des non-convexités dans l'ensemble budgétaire. Le modèle de base a bénéficié de...
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We use the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) to investigate the determinants of self-employment. More precisely, we consider the influence of immediate social environments and social networks on the choice of self-employment. We conjecture that self-employment is correlated across...
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Vieillir, ce n’est pas seulement un problème biologique et propre à chaque individu, c’est aussi un problème économique et collectif. Alors que l’espérance de vie (en bonne santé) augmente grâce au progrès technique et médical, la période d’activité professionnelle pour une...
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The present study proposes to examine the fruitfulness of an econometric modeling of the determinants of poverty in Burkina Faso in 1994_95, in order to build a “poverty profile” which is not only founded on a decomposition of measurements of the latter according to specified sub_groups....
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Le financement des retraites ayant pour finalité de fournir une réponse à une réalité sociale par définition mouvante, ne peut faire l’objet que de solutions évolutives, sous peine de remises en cause de situations présentées comme faussement stables. D’où le questionnement : avec...
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We study how managers respond to hurricane events when their firms are located in the neighborhood of the disaster area. We find that the sudden shock to the perceived liquidity risk leads managers to increase corporate cash holdings and to express more concerns about hurricane risk in...
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We develop a geographical-based vibrancy index using important location characteristics that measure local economic health. We show that local vibrancy is associated with future firm outcomes, including investment, leverage, profitability, and firm value. More vibrant firms are located in...
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Due to non-linear transaction costs, the fi nancial performance of a trading strategy decreaseswith portfolio size. Using a dynamic trading model a la Garleanu and Pedersen (2013), wederive closed-form formulas for the performance-to-scale frontier reached by competitive tradersendowed with a...
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