The last twenty years have seen a rise of inequalities and a slowdown of growth in the US and Europe. It is common wisdom to interpret the rise of inequalities as the result of a skill-biased labor demand shift. While there is a strong evidence that such a shift has happened, this overlooks the...

Cet article montre dans quelle mesure des politiques economiques de nature reglementaire sont susceptibles d'inflechir les phenomenes de concentration des productions agricoles dans les bassins des productions les plus competitifs.

We study the relationship between social segmentation and income inequality by means of the economic theory of clubs with private provision of the club good. After having characterized the equilibrium partition of society in clubs and investigating its characteristics, we show how the clubs'...

This paper adds to the empirical literature on business cycle properties across exchange rate regimes. Earlier research examined the consequences of the Bretton Woods system on international stylized facts. However, the conclusions might be biased by the oil shocks at the beginning of the...

Lexical parsing is the whole set of techniques to increase from a raw text to a sequence of tagged words ; these tags are morphological and grammatical information. Lexical parsing generally uses an electronic dictionary. But a few of them accommodate themselves to proper nouns that are a...

We study a general equilibrium model with micro-economic risk in which agents maximize an rand-dependent-expected-utility. Financial markets are complete. Under the assumption of weak risk aversion, all agents are prefectly insured at equilibrium. If, furthermore, agents are strongly risk...

This article analyses the role of On-the-Job Training - viewed as an investment - in human capital accumulation, its interaction with schooling decisions and its impact on innovation activities. For this purpose, we construct an endogenous innovation model which takes into account two types of...

This paper studies the equilibrium dynamics of an overlapping generations model with capital, money and cash-in-advance constraints. At each date the economy can experience two different regimes. In the first one the cash-in-advance constraint is binding and money is a dominated asset. In the...

In this paper we develop a new version of the algortihm proposed in [17] for solving exactly some variants of (un)weighted constrained two-dimensional cutting stock problems. We introduce one-dimensional bounded knapsacks in order to obtain an improved initial lower bound for limitating...