Conventional wisdom indicates that the growth of credit may not materialize if credit rates remain capped by usury laws, as had long been the case in France. France therefore abolished usury ceilings on loans to microenterprise in an effort to increase financing for microenterprises. This should...

This article aims to renew the economic analysis of French DPO vineyards. From an institutional perspective, we show that a DPO vineyard connects various ?geophysical terroirs? and an ?institutional terroir?, i.e. a set of institutions covering the territory that constitutes the vineyards,...