Economic fluctuations, climate risk and a number of individual specific shocks leave households vulnerable to severe hardship in developing countries. Moreover, the credit and insurance markets are limited and the social coverage is weak. In this context, households saving is crucial to provide...

Information Technologies bear the potential of new uses. These uses provoke a new organization which induces a new vision of software engineering. Under the influence of globalization, and the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that modify radically our relationship with...

We propose a generic framework for the analysis of Monte Carlo simulation schemes of backward SDEs. The general results are used to re-visit the convergence of the algorithm suggested by Bouchard and Touzi (2004) [6]. By keeping the higher order terms in the expansion of the Skorohod integrals...

Cet article défend l'idée selon laquelle une scolarisation minimale obligatoire peut constituer un complément efficace à une taxe qui financerait l'éducation en présence d'évasion fiscale. Nous construisons un modèle à générations d'agents dans lequel deux régimes d'éducation sont...

This is a summary of the author’s Ph.D. thesis supervised by Fioravante Patrone and Stefano Bonassi and defended on 25 May 2006 at the Università degli Studi di Genova. The thesis in written in English and a copy is available from the author upon request. This work deals with the discussion...

Using a representative survey of the French population, the Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey (ESPS: “Enquête sur la santé et la protection sociale”), this article aims to study the links between migration, region of origin and health status in France. Firstly, we have compared the...

Afin de comprendre les effets des IDE sur la pauvreté nous construisons un modèle en équations simultanée appliqué à des données de panel d’Afrique Subsaharienne. Ce modèle comprend trois équations : une pour la croissance économique, une pour les inégalités et une pour le taux de...

In this paper, we analyze whether the development of a growing economy could be impeded if a binding climate agreement were signed at the international level. Specifically, we study, in the case of a developing country, the initial momentum for development in the presence of binding emission...

Traditionally, cooperative game theory has been applied to a variety of water resource problems assuming a deterministic pattern of supply. On the other hand, in view of the important role that water plays in regional and local projects, and taking into account that with climate change affecting...