The 1980s have seen a persistent sluggishness of the industrial investment of french firms, a marked deterioration in corporate finances until 1983, and very high interest rates. Simultaneously, many difficulties have appeared in the macroeconometric works dealing with the influence of...

This Paper discusses specific measures to facilitate employment creation: investment subsidies as compared to employment subsidies. The point of departure is the view that sustained reduction of unemployment to the “natural” level is the top policy goal in terms of the welfare cost of...

In this paper, the unilateral divorce law is modelled trough the combination of exclusive rights on the marriage dissolution and alternative compensation rules benefiting to the parent having custody of the children. Their influence are studied both in the short run (probability and efficiency...

In this paper, our first aim is to provide a simple diagrammatic specification of the production possibilities facing the individual firm which incorporates the basic elements of both the investment and the utilization decisions.

La théorie de l'équilibre général walrasien possède un pouvoir prédictif, du moins tant que l'on veut bien s'en tenir a des environnements en information complète, en l'absence de pouvoirs de marché et où il est connaissance commune que les marchés doivent s'équilibrer. On examine ici...

This article contributes to the small literature on the relationship between the range of local public services and population size. Using new data on French local jurisdictions, we test the hypothesis that larger jurisdictions provide a broader range of public goods (the so-called “zoo...

Le but de cet article est d’étudier le mode de rémunération des dirigeants en vigueur dans 195 sociétés opérant en Belgique en janvier 1979. L’échantillon qui a servi de base à nos recherches provient d’une banque de données du Management Center Europe établie au moyen de...

La problématique de l'équilibre général en présence de concurrence imparfaite est examinée à l'occasion d'une vue d'ensemble de la littérature consacrée au sujet. On tâchera de souligner à la fois les apports et les limites de la théorie sur cette question, plus particulièrement...