This article delves into the relationship between newspaper readership and civic attitudes, and its effect on economic development. To this end, we investigate the long-term consequences of the introduction of the printing press in the 19th century. In sub-Saharan Africa, Protestant missionaries...

Many econometric models can be analyzed as finite mixtures. We focus on two-component mixtures and we show that they are nonparametrically point identified by a combination of an exclusion restriction and tail restrictions. Our identification analysis suggests simple closed-form estimators of...

In their current haste to deliver, the Doha negotiators seem to head for a package combining increased market access for “easy” products (mostly those with low or moderate tariffs) with broad exceptions in “difficult” sectors (mostly those with high tariffs). Such a mix may increase the...

Cette année, les membres du Gn se réunissent au plus fort d’une période critique de l’Histoire contemporaine, du moins sur le plan économique et social : ils doivent affronter la plus grave crise des 80 dernières années. En paraphrasant Keynes on peut aller jusqu’à affirmer que le...

An assessment of the conduct of monetary policy in Europe must necessarily be made along two distinct and complementary lines. The first is a comparison with the policies followed in the past. The second line has to assess whether monetary policy is adapted to the new conditions that came into...

We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how market size and ge- ography (the market sizes of and bilateral economic distances to trading partners) affect both a firm's exported product range and its exported product mix across market destinations (the dis- tribution...

In this paper, we try to show how the EU became a global ecological power, i.e. a power that influences environmental policies throughout the world. While the existing literature stresses the significance of normative power, regulatory politics and multi-level governance in this process, we...

Le PIB britannique a baissé de 0,2 % au quatrième trimestre 2011 après avoir augmenté de 0,5 % au trimestre précédent. Au-delà de ces fluctuations trimestrielles, la reprise a clairement marqué le pas au second semestre (...).

Compte rendu de la 9ème Conférence EUROFRAME qui s'est tenue à Kiel le 8 juin 2012.

En adoptant une monnaie commune, les membres de la zone euro ont choisi de déléguer leur politique monétaire à une banque centrale indépendante dont l'objectif principal était de garantir la stabilité des prix. En écartant définitivement les possibilités de dévaluation compétitive au...