Can the digital sector relaunch France’s national economy ? For a few years now, this question has nagged experts and spawned topquality reports. Despite their relevance, these documents all err by too simply separating the “new technology”, adorned with all virtues and loaded with...

L'automobile a conquis le monde. Instrument de liberté, pourvoyeur d'emplois et de croissance, objet souvent statutaire, l'automobile traverse une crise en Europe notamment. Son succès est désormais planétaire mais quel est son avenir ? Sera-t-elle demain aussi désirée qu'hier ? Pour...

Mutual funds industry has been sought by French politicians as mediation between the popular savings and company’s investments through the financial markets. Questioning the link between finance and industry requires analyzing the effectiveness of this mediation. This article intends firstly...

Objective: Pay-for-performance programmes have been widely implemented in primary care, but few studies have investigated their potential adverse effects on the intrinsic motivation of general practitioners (GPs) even though intrinsic motivation may be a key determinant of quality in health...

Tout travail de recherche repose sur une certaine vision du monde, utilise une méthodologie, propose des résultats visant à comprendre, expliquer, prédire ou transformer. Une explicitation de ces présupposés épistémologiques permet de contrôler la démarche de recherche, d’accroître...

In this article we focus on the so-called back-loading policy adopted by the European Commission to increase the carbon market price. This environmental measure consists of removing a share of the allowances allocated for a given period in order to reallocate some or all of them later on. To...

We introduce a new measure of herding that allows for tracking dynamics of individual herding. Using a database of nearly 8 million trades by 87,373 retail investors between 1999 and 2006, we show that individual herding is persistent over time and that past performance and the level of...

L’avènement du numérique, qui change notre rapport à l’information et à la connaissance, bouleverse nos modes de collaboration et nos modèles économiques.

Background Like many other OECD nations, France has implemented a pay-for-performance (P4P) model in primary care. However, the benefits have been debated, particularly regarding the possibly undesirable effects of extrinsic motivation (EM) on intrinsic motivation (IM). Objective To examine the...