L’objet de cet article est de déterminer l’influence des dépenses de campagne sur les résultats électoraux en France. À partir d’une étude empirique fondée sur les élections législatives de 1997, nous montrons que les résultats électoraux français sont sensibles aux dépenses...

This paper aims at understanding why cardholders still withdraw cash from bank branches. Differentiating the direct and indirect costs of a withdrawal, we exploit a unique data set of a French representative sample in order to estimate the probability to withdraw cash at a bank branch...

This preliminary note aims to detect the empirical factors of the spatial repartition of the 2008 French governmental macroeconomic plan. The econometric analysis shows i. the lack of political determinants inducing the default of pork-barreling strategy; ii. the incoherent influence of the...

Cet article étudie les perceptions de l’économie de marché par les enseignants-chercheurs et les chercheurs français. Par rapport à la littérature sur les opinions des académiques, nous proposons une nouvelle explication selon laquelle les connaissances théorique et pratique du...

We propose a theory of territorial captivity to explain the level of voter turnout in national elections. We start by showing that the consequences of voting in an election are limited to a clearly defined territory. For this reason, the expected return on the election results will be higher for...

This article aims at evaluating the influence of campaign spending on legislative vote share within a new French campaign finance law. From an empirical analysis derived from the 1997 French legislative election, we show that the electoral outcomes are sensitive to campaign spending. Using MCO...

Several methodological difficulties emerge from the empirical evaluation of the impact of closeness on turnout. The most critical resides in the use of the actual electoral results to assess the impact of closeness. Important doubt therefore remains with respect to the empirical validity of the...

Cet article se présente comme une extension du champ de l'économie du vote et de ses méthodes au domaine encore inexploré des élections professionnelles. A partir d'une analyse des suffrages obtenus par la FNSEA aux élections des Chambres d'Agriculture départementales de 1995 à 2001,...

This article aims at evaluating the influence of campaign spending on legislative vote share within a new French campaign finance law. From an empirical analysis derived from the 1997 French legislative election, we show that the electoral outcomes are sensitive to campaign spending. Using ols...

This article studies e-Government uses in order to determine if, among Internet users, e-administration services benefit to specific categories of the population. From individual French data (insee [2005]) and controlling for the selection bias related to Internet use, we show that among...