This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress,...

Using a sample of 46,000 EU firms from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the drivers of innovation adoption. In contrast to most empirical studies on innovation diffusion in which a specific technology is analyzed, this study covers several countries and industries in the...

[fre] La revalorisation du RMI. . Depuis la création du RMI, fin 1988, son pouvoir d'achat est resté stable mais il a été dévalorisé en termes relatifs vis-à-vis de celui des bas salaires et particulièrement du SMIC. Cette évolution paraît justifier une revalorisation du RMI si l'on se...

[fre] La réforme de l'aide sociale aux États-Unis, fondée sur le retour à l'emploi des femmes seules avec enfants bénéficiaires du TANF, a donné lieu à de multiples évaluations qui ne présentent pas toutes les mêmes garanties de robustesse. Après avoir resitué la réforme fédérale...

This paper analyzes how economic history and cliometrics can improve our understanding of the financial crises. We discuss the contributions of authors like Reinhart and Rogoff, Bordo and Eichengreen. According to Reinhart and Rogoff the recent crisis is similar in many aspects to former...

This article deals with the relevancy of expansionary monetary policy in a situation of financial crisis in an historical perspective. We simulate, within a svar framework, the effects of expansionary monetary policy over the period 1929-1933, in the us. We suggest a renewed monetary lesson in...

In this study we show that French foreign investment from the end of the nineteenth century until the eve of the First World War was driven by economic and financial considerations. This refutes the hitherto accepted thesis that French capital exports were motivated by diplomatic and political...