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This paper examines the impact of central bank independence on inflation persistence. Our theoretical analysis predicts that a higher degree of central bank independence leads to a lower inflation persistence and therefore to a higher speed of disinflation. The empirical results, provided using...
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This paper focuses on modelling and estimating the starting point bias in closed-ended follow-up questions, where several bids are presented successively, depending on previous answers. Although the contingent valuation literature took off in the last decade, there is only one study modelling...
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On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...
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We use a semiparametric additive model to study the relationship between protected area, income, trade, population, education, and political institutions in a sample of 89 countries. The results show the nonexistence of environmental Kuznets curve in the data sample. The study also points out...
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We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents’ ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a first-order Markov...
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This article provides a first empirical study of the determinants of the propensity to which academic scholars tend to perform interdisciplinarity research. For that purpose we introduce a measure of interdisciplinarity as the diversity of their research production across scientific domains. Our...
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Cet article analyse les effets de la transparence économique sur l’efficacité de la politique monétaire dans un modèle de concurrence monopolistique en connaissance commune imparfaite sur les chocs de demande affectant une économie sans biais inflationniste. Nous montrons que la...
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Il s’agit dans cette contribution de mettre en perspective les implications de l’économie de la connaissance sur la firme tout en exposant quels sont les outils TIC que cette dernière met en œuvre en réponse. Il est fait appel dans cette recherche aussi bien aux écrits traitant des...
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Depuis le début des années 1980, la France a développé un outil original permettant aux doctorants de réaliser leur thèse à la fois dans un laboratoire de recherche public et dans une entreprise : ce sont les Conventions Industrielles de Formations par la Recherche (CIFRE). Ce système...
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Cette contribution s’inscrit dans le prolongement des recherches francophones menées ces dernières années sur les pratiques de GRH en PME. Cet article s’intéresse aux conditions sous lesquelles la délégation est pratiquée dans les PME camerounaises ; les résultats d’une étude...
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