Suite à la multiplication des scandales financiers, le cadre institutionnel réagit, à chaque fois, pour palier aux différents dysfonctionnements décelés dans le système de gouvernement d'entreprise. Face à la richesse ou à la complexité de ce cadre institutionnel de plus en plus...

Nous cherchons dans cette communication à compléter les recherches proximistes sur les conflits d'usage et de voisinage, en intégrant une distinction au niveau de la proximité organisée entre la logique intra-groupe et la logique inter-groupe. Nous proposons ensuite une application de notre...

Recent financial crises in Europe as well as the periodic battles in the U.S. over the debt ceiling point to the importance of fiscal discipline among developed countries. This paper develops an open economy model, calibrated to the U.S. and a subset of the EMU, to evaluate the impact of various...

Are married couples more credit constrained than unmarried households? If the cost of separation increases the risk of default, banks might be willing to lend to stable couples. In presence of incomplete information, marriage could be used as a signal of the quality of the match. This paper...

Large changes in marital trends during the second half of the 20th century raise the question of the reason leading to marriage in Western Europe and in Northern America: declining marriage rates, increase in cohabitation, increasing divorce rates. But the reason to get married can be diverse...

The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into (1) the determinants of the value of inventions and (2) the role that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two...

Par rapport à d'autres pays, où le doctorat figure parmi les diplômes les plus recherchés par les employeurs, les conditions d'insertion professionnelle des docteurs dans le monde non académique sont, en France, préoccupantes, même si les situations sont contrastées selon les...

In this paper, we compare, first, the impact of a windfall and a boom sectors on the economy of an oil exporting country and their welfare implications ; in a second step, we analyze how monetary policy should be conducted to insulate the economy from the main impact of these shocks, namely the...

Based on recent data concerning the French distribution networks in retail and services, this paper highlights several stylized facts relating to the sector-based differences in the organizational choices. Until now this issue has not been studied in the economical literature. This paper...

A robust prediction across a wide range of open-economy macroeconomic models is that an unanticipated increase in public spending in a given country appreciates it currency in real terms. This result, however, contradicts the findings of a number of recent empirical studies, which instead...