Cette étude présente un amendement à la version sociologique de la théorie du salaire d'efficience en modélisant l'origine de la coopération dans l'entreprise. L'échange d'un salaire élevé contre un niveau d'effort élevé apparaît comme équilibre parfait d'un jeu répété si les...

Sous des conditions bien connues, les gains d'arbitrage du com-merce peuvent être obtenus soit par le commerce des biens (en l'ab-sence de mobilité des facteurs), soit par la mobilité internationale des facteurs (en l'absence de commerce de biens). Il en découle que les résidents d'un pays...

This paper analyzes the determinants of firm survival in Côte d'Ivoire manufacturing Sector. Non parametric and parametric models are used for estimations on 181 firms surve during March 1995 and March 1996 for the World Bank Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED). The main findings...

Le cours parallèle de la naira a chuté peu de temps après la dévaluation du franc CFA en 1994. On construit un modèle théorique simple montrant comment ces deux événements sont probablement reliés, et on présente un test économétrique allant dans ce sens.

Retaining as a “Millennium Development Goal” a decrease by two thirds in child mortality whatever its initial level assumes that the target elasticity of child mortality may be the same in all the developing countries. We show that such an assumption is not perfectly consistent with the...

In a framework, where child labor results from a risky choice between working and schooling, we study the reason why public education expenditures may fail to reduce child labor. We determine an optimal composition of social expenditures between education and health which minimizes child labor...

This paper uses a price leadership model of the international vanilla market to study the welfare consequences of alternative pricing policies for Madagascar, the leader in the vanilla market, that also controls domestic production through a single-channel marketing system. Econometric estimates...

Tariffs are a more transparent form of protection and frequently have a revenueraising function as well. But tariffs on finished products are usually higher than on intermediates and raw materials, and exemptions are common, causing effective protection to vary greatly across industries. One of...

Based on a sample of 38 emerging countries, we find that inflation targeting (IT) adoption improves sovereign debt risk. However, we show that IT adoption effectiveness is sensitive to several structural characteristics, such as the phase of the business cycle, the fiscal stance, and the level...

This paper investigates the mechanisms determining spatial interactions in deforestation, and its transmission channels, using data from Brazil. Our preliminary results confirm the hypothesis that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is characterized by complementarity, meaning that...