The Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) introduced by Anderson and Neary (1994) provided the first theoretically satisfying measure of a country's tariff structure by overcoming the problem of ad hoc specification of indexing weights and the related index number problem. We observe, however, that...

Using a sample of 25 economies in transition from 1990 to 2001, this paper deals with the evolution of output and its relation to the different large-scale privatization policies applied by the countries. Ceteris paribus, we econometrically show that the choice of a privatization policy can lock...

The recursive formula for the value of the zero-sum repeated games with incomplete information on both sides is known for a long time. As it is explained in the paper, the usual proof of this formula is in a sense non constructive : it just claims that the players are unable to guarantee a...

This paper proves the existence of competitive equilibrium in a single sector dynamic economy with elastic labor supply. The method of proof relies on some recent results (see Le Van and Saglam [2004]) concerning the existence of Lagrange multipliers in infinite dimensional spaces and their...

The aim of this paper is to examine technology transfer through backward linkages between multinational enterprises and local suppliers. This issue is of great interest for several reasons. First of all, the new theory of economic growth suggests that technological innovations are becoming an...

This paper investigates principally the effects of a technological innovation on hours worked in a sticky price model. Our challenge is to reproduce the short-run decline in employment supported by a large range of recent works, inspired by Gali (1999), regardless of any monetary policy...

Education is key in explaining growth, as emphasized recently by Krueger and Lindahl (2001). But for a given level of education, what can explain the missing growth in developing countries ? Corruption, the poor enforcement of property rights, the government share of property rights, the...

For several years, there has been an important increase in sub-contracting. Thereupon, it seemed necessary to ask the question of whether their respective outsourcing strategies might be related to their attitude towards taxation, notably with regard to VAT recovery. May VAT contribute to a...

This paper provides a new approach to analyzing credit constraints by differentiating which of the household's production and consumption decisions are affected by credit constraints. It also provides a first attempt to estimate of the extent and determinants of credit constraints in the...

We use a model of the diffusion of knowledge which considers one of the principal forms of training found within firms : learning by watching. Using a French INSEE matched employee-employer survey (Le coût de la main d'oeuvre et la structure des salaires 1992, ECMOSS 92), we propose an...