On September 1st, 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Québec in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centre, family-based, and for-profit centre under the agreement) began offering daycare spaces at the reduced...

The game theoretic prediction for alternating offer bargaining depends crucially on how "the pie'' changes over time, and whether the proposer in an early round has ultimatum power. We experimentally study eight such games. Each game is once repeated before being followed by the next one, which...

Using a dynamic programming framework, in an intertemporal consumption-saving model with income uncertainty and durability, we have found a closed form solution for consumption. Also, the precautionary savings term arising from the riskiness of income is formally derived. With durability...

Cette étude utilise les techniques de cointégration CCR, FM-MCO, MCOD, et le VECM de Johansen pour trouver les déterminants macroéconomiques de l'épargne canadienne et québécoise entre 1981 et 2010. Trois spécifications de l'épargne sont utilisées : l'épargne en millions $, l'épargne...

Le prolongement de la vie active des travailleurs âgés constitue un défi de taille pour les politiques publiques dans un contexte de vieillissement de la population et de sortie fragile d'une récession. Bien que le Québec émerge relativement bien de la récession, il demeure que le...

S'intéressant de plus en plus à la qualité des services offerts par les universités québécoises, le Gouvernement du Québec a demandé au Conseil supérieur de l'éducation de faire une consultation sur la question de l'assurance qualité appliquée au système universitaire québécois....

Once the 2009 financial meltdown was avoided through central banks' decisive action and governments' swift bailouts, the general consensus was that the usual recipes that took us back to prosperity and growth after each of the post war recessions should undoubtedly work again. The main tools...

Optimum commodity taxation theory asks how to raise a given amount of tax revenue while minimizing distortions. We reexamine Ramsey's inverse elasticity rule in presence of Hotelling-type non-renewable natural resources. Under standard assumptions borrowed from the...

We revisit the effect of traders' experience on price bubbles by introducing either one-third or two-thirds steady inflow of new traders in the repeated experimental asset markets. We find that bubbles are not significantly abated by the third repetition of the market with the inflow of new...

We derive the empirical content of an instrumental variables model of sectorial choice with binary outcomes. Assumptions on selection include the simple, extended and generalized Roy models. The derived bounds are nonparametric intersection bounds and are simple enough to lend themselves to...