Son preference is strong in Vietnam, according to attitudinal surveys and studies of contraceptive prevalence and birth hazards. These techniques assume a single model is valid for all families, but it is more plausible that son preference is found for some, but not all, families. Heterogeneous...

We consider a kernel based approach to nonlinear canonical correlation analysis and its implementation for time series. We deduce various diagnostics for reversible processes and gaussian processes. The method is first applied to a stimulated series satisfying a diffusion equation allowing us to...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have started to populate also regulated sector. Their linked international activities and credible threats to relocate are then new concerns for regulators. We sutdy a multiprincipal model in which a privately informed MNE (the agent) produces for two countries...

It is often suggested that the larger the size of risk, the larger our willingness to pay (WTP) for a given reduction of this risk. We show that this is not true in general in the expected utility model. We examine under which conditions the WTP for a marginal reduction in the size of risk is...

Les travaux empiriques sur les effets de la reglementation des monopoles publics ou prives montrent que la mesure des couts doit tenir compte de l'incidence des strutures contractuelles. L'objectif de cet article est l'etude des structures productives dans l'industrie du transport urbain...

This paper presents bayesian inference procedures for the continuous time mover-stayer model applied to individual transition data collected in discrete time. In particular, these methods allow to derive the probability of embeddability of the discrete-time modelling with the continuous-time...

This paper tries to reconcile incentive theory with transaction costs theory. we first discuss the fundamental assumptions underlying the use of the Revelation Principle in the standard mecanisme design literature and show how various contractual incompletenesses and externalities induced by...