Il résulte de cette recherche que le principe de précaution se présente avant tout, dans la laborieuse recherche d'une conciliation entre ces deux logiques, comme un principe procédural, un élément méthodologique permettant de hiérarchiser libre circulation des marchandises et protection...

Cet article compare une stratégie de baisse des rendements avec celle de la jachère tournante pour atteindre une même réduction quantitative des productions céréalières et d'oléo-protéagineux. La concavité nettement plus prononcée des fonctions de production réelles à l'égard de la...

Une réduction de moitié de la protection agricole dans la Communauté Européenne et aux Etats-Unis, simulée par le modèle MISS, entraîne une baisse substantielle du revenu agricole (-25 %) dans la Communauté à l'issue d'une période de quatre ans. Cette baisse est inégalement ressentie...

The United States and the European Union have been implementing sizeable biofuel support programmes since the beginning of the decade. Supporting the biofuel industry raises the price of the agricultural feedstock, hence increases the farmer revenue, and reduces the need for direct income...

Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...

Compares conditions of academic tenure and its functional equivalent in post secondary education in selected Anglo-American countries and in countries governed by civil-service regimes. Draws conclusions regarding nomination and dismissal, the case of distant-study teaching, effects of brain...

Explores the development of joint voluntary initiatives and codes of conduct adopted in support of fundamental environmental and labour standards and shows how they provide new frameworks for the support of social dialogue. Provides case studies of several such initiatives and examines their...

Given the assumption that the components of a vector time series are stationary about nonlinear deterministic time trends, nonlinear co-trending is the phenomenon that one or more linear combinations of the time series are stationary about a linear trend, hence the series have common nonlinear...