Ruptures like the recent global financial crisis are inherent elements of our global ‘securitised’ financial system. Re-regulations and the maturing of the financial industry have led to re-organisation processes within the industry with far-reaching implications on international financial...

Les théories de la segmentation remettent en cause l’unicité et l'homogénéité du marché du travail, en stipulant au contraire qu’il existe plusieurs segments cloisonnés, les uns étant rémunérateurs et offrant une stabilité et une sécurisation des carrières professionnelles...

This study jointly investigates factors driving the processes of accessing and staying in school in sub-Saharan Africa. We explicitly account for the fact that staying in school or its converse, dropping out, is observed only among children who ever attend school. We use data from Demographic...

This paper studies the optimal public investment decisions in countries experiencing a resource windfall. To do so, we use an augmented version of the Permanent Income framework with public investment faced with adjustment costs capturing the associated administrative capacity as well as...

L’objet de cet article est d'exposer une réflexion théorique sur la production de l'espace transfrontalier afin de saisir sa complexité et d'en analyser sa structure. Un cadre conceptuel a été élaboré pour appréhender cette question. Il révèle d’une part que les facteurs...

Using count data models controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, this study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms in Flanders that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on firms’ patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between...

The present paper examines the importance of integrating geographic contextual effects into the analysis of social networks. By considering spatial structures as both produced by and productive of social relations, geographic space seems to be more than the extent on which places, actors or...

This paper examines the relative well-being of Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg by looking at non-monetary, or ‘direct indicators’ of material deprivation. The paper not only documents deprivation differentials between immigrants and natives, but also models the association between...

Cette communication aborde la question de l’adoption des technologies vertes ou Green IT. Elle cherche à savoir si l’adoption des Green IT est motivée par des facteurs économiques (réduction des coûts), des facteurs réputationnels mais aussi si elle est l’expression de la démarche...

This paper contributes to the literature on hedonic models in two ways. First, it makes use of Queyranne's reformulation of a hedonic model in the discrete case as a network flow problem in order to provide a proof of existence and integrality of a hedonic equilibrium and efficient computational...