This paper investigates whether remittance inflows reduce the elasticity of government size with respect to trade openness. Put differently, the paper tests the hypothesis that there is a partial substitution between public insurance through government spending and a private insurance through...

L'objet de cet article est de tester la pertinence des enseignements de la Théorie des Coûts de Transaction en les confrontant à des structures contractuelles qui ne relèvent pas du cadre juridique à partir duquel elle s'est construite. On traite des contrats de délégation utilisés en...

L’efficacité des partenariats public-privé (PPP) dans les industries de service public en réseau a été remise en cause par de nombreux auteurs. Une des défaillances majeure reprochée à ce type d’accords concerne le manque d’incitation de l’opérateur en place à investir en fin...

The paper investigates the links between the European Monetary Integration and the ongoing specificities and partial autonomy of industrial relations, labour markets and labour regimes at the national level. This is a follow up of John Hicks (1955) paper arguing that the Thirties experienced the...

In this paper we compare the interregional and international degree of real exchange rate variability of a number of EMS-countries. This allows us to gain insights into the costs of a monetary union. Our major conclusion is that a monetary union among all EMS members would be costly for some of...

We study a spatial competition model which is a variant of the celebrated Hotelling (1929) framework. One of the firm is a brick-and-mortar one while the other is on-line. Both firms sell the same product except that (constant) marginal costs may differ. Consumers going to the shop around the...

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on some fundamental issues : (i)What do we mean by the much used terms – convergence, coordination, hamonisation ? (ii) What is the need for, potential gains of coordination in the community (iii) What explains the evident limits ans difficulty of...

In this note the decision problem of a strategic firm in a general equilibrium setting is analyzed. It is shown that a problem of unanimity arises when such a firm has many shareholders, and that a well known criterion used in the case of market incompleteness can be quite interestingly...

This article develops the international aspects of the two-handed growth strategy. Both the supply and demand side measures are reviewed. The need to work on both sides simultaneously is stressed, even if the specific topic of cooperation privileges the demand side. The report argues that...