Alors que sous l’impact des processus de changements technologiques et de globalisation rapides, les économies et les sociétés contemporaines subissent de profondes mutations, la science économique traverse une crise identitaire sans précédent. Fondée sur un modèle excessivement...

The evolution of water supplies in the province of Huesca, north-eastern Spain, in recent years is used as a basis for a forecast with a 2028 time horizon. The main aim of this paper is to seek water management strategies to deal with future water availability including extreme events like...

Using macro-level panel data, we examine the effects of taxation and tax progressivity on entrepreneurship in a large group of European countries. We address two main objectives. First, we try to explore whether tax increases discourage entrepreneurial activity, distinguishing between the...

Dans de nombreuses juridictions les autorités de la concurrence et de la régulation des marchés remettent en cause le principe des commissions d'interchange ; commissions que l'on retrouve pourtant dans la quasi-totalité des plateformes interbancaires de paiements par carte. Il semblerait...

The aim of this article is to identify the modalities of financing international trade security. Our analysis is more specifically oriented toward the issue of financing developing countries, which must make a considerable effort to attain the required level, whereas the developed countries have...

The recent economic history of China is simply fascinating. During the last quarter of a century, China’s GDP has been growing at an average rate of 9% a year, driving China to the top five world economies with a GDP per capita of 1,410 US$ in 2005. What account for such a rapid development?...