The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

[fre] Les legs volontaires en France : évaluation et explication, . par Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau.. . Cet article se propose d'évaluer l'importance des legs volontaires sur la base d'une enquête de l'Insee sur la structure des actifs financiers de 5 600 ménages. Cette mesure est alors...

This paper first discusses the notion of economic performance as applied to public enterprises and argues that productive efficiency is an attractive approach to performance measurement for such firms. It then presents an empirical efficiency study of postal services which is aimed at comparing...

The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...