This paper introduces a speci…c Bootstrap method for positiverecurrent Markov chains, based on the regenerative method and the Nummelinsplitting technique. The main idea underlying this construction consists in generatinga sequence of approximate pseudo-renewal times for a Harris chain X...

We study the effect of the large increase of payroll tax subsidies for low-wage workersthat occurred in France in 1995. We compute the ex ante changes in average labor costs in1994 solely due to the changes in the tax subsidies and consider it as a treatment variable.We extend the Rubin causal...

Nous examinons, dans le cadre d'une relation verticale entre un producteuret un distributeur, les incitations que reçoivent chacun des agents à certierun produit de qualité inconnue des consommateurs. Nous montrons que cettedécision est à l'origine de conits additionnels entre l'amont et...

We consider a dynamic model for the participation decision to thelabour market of the women who live in couple.We estimate a dynamicprobit model with random effects using the french part of the Europanel,for the period going from 1994 to 2001 and using a simulatedmaximum likehood estimator....

Answers to various questions of applied macroeconomics depend on the valuesgiven to elasticities of substitution between the demands for factors, these demands beingaggregated across productive sectors. Such elasticities reflect not only substitutabilities withinproductive sectors, but also...