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Although it is frequent, discontinuous (leapfrog) development has rarely been addressed by the literature, because traditional models are unable to conceive diverse urban forms. This article is a survey of theoretical explanations of discontinuous development. It follows two parts. First, taking...
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L’instauration du Mont-de-Piété à Bordeaux fut un succès institutionnel. Ses objectifs sont atteints : il lutte contre l’usure, abaisse le coût du crédit, finance la politique de bienfaisance de la ville, tout en étant indépendant financièrement. McLaughlin (2013) a étudié les...
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Cet article mesure d’un point de vue quantitatif et macroéconomique l’ampleur de la relocalisation de l’industrie automobile en Europe durant la décennie 2000. A l’aide de données sur la production, l’emploi, le commerce international et la présence d’entreprises étrangères...
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Cet article met en exergue les improvisations dans la gestion financière de la guerre. Le choix d’un moratoire des dépôts bancaires au détriment du réescompte traduit un refus de faire jouer à la Banque de France un rôle de préteur en dernier ressort. Le choix précipité de...
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We propose a concept to study the stability of social and economic networks when players are farsighted and allocations are determined endogenously. A set of networks is a von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable set with bargaining if there exists an allocation rule and a bargaining threat...
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This paper analyses the efficiency of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) to manage household packaging wastes. We use a Mussa-Rosen type model of vertical product differentiation: two firms produce a homogeneous good and use packaging to create a subjective vertical differentiation. We...
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Le document examine si l’activité de brevetage des entreprises les plus inventives affecte le nombre de brevets délivrés à d\'autres inventeurs locaux dans la même zone métropolitaine aux États-Unis. La théorie économique prédit que les effets positifs des économies...
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In this article, we propose to extend the concept of stochastic dominance, extensively used in decision theory and social choice, to the comparison of composite outcomes, both the quality and quantity of which do matter. Unanimity of judgment among new classes of functions is also studied. We...
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Most of the empirical and theoretical literature aimed at understanding the behavioral patterns that lead to the formation of social networks argue that such networks are clustered because agents like social closure, since it facilitates cooperation enforcement, for instance, or increases match...
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The small-scale fishery sector in many Pacific islands is facing increasing challenges in relation to resource availability, economic opportunity, demographic and social pressure. In particular, intensifying cash-oriented livelihood strategies can exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and threaten...
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