Les recommandations et le choix final des clones d'hévéa pour la culture de nouvelles parcelles déterminent les conditions de valorisation du progrès génétique chez cette espèce pérenne cultivée pour la production de caoutchouc naturel. Une approche multicritère de sommes pondérées...

En 1883, les brevets accordés en France, en Allemagne, au Royaume-Uni et en Belgique représentent 41% des brevets accordés dans le monde, les brevets américains représentant quant à eux 43% du total. L'Europe du Nord-Ouest s'affiche au XIXe siècle comme un des hauts lieux du brevet...

TaxMe-Online is the online tax declaration system of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland, where each of the 26 Cantons has its own fiscal regime and taxation system. In 2008 it was used by almost 26 percent of the Canton of Bern taxpayers (42% used the TaxMe-CD or other software, and the last...

Road safety policies often use incentive mechanisms based on traffic violations to promote safe driving. Examples of mechanisms are fines, experience rating and point-record driving licenses. We analyse the effectiveness of these mechanisms in promoting safe driving. We derive their theoretical...

Recent publications in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) have shown that the previous literature did not grasp how complex patents are. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of all identified functions of patents and of the main strategic implications of such a complex picture....

This paper investigates both the dynamic and steady-state effects of unanticipated permanent and temporary terms of trade shocks within a two-good small open economy with habit formation and capital adjustment costs. A permanent terms of trade worsening induces a deficit-surplus current account...

We use a two-sector neoclassical open economy model with traded and non-traded goods to investigate both the aggregate and the sectoral effects of temporary fiscal shocks. One central finding is that both sectoral capital intensities and labor supply elasticity matter in determining the response...

Cet article se propose de fournir, en s'appuyant sur une approche empruntée à l'Ecole de la régulation, une spécification de la crise structurelle du régime rentier à l'œuvre en Algérie. L'analyse nous permettra d'en diagnostiquer les sources et d'en identifier les principales...

A captive is an insurance or reinsurance company established by a parent group to finance its own risks. Captives mix internal risk pooling between the business units of the parent group and risk transfer toward the reinsurance market. We analyze captives from an optimal insurance contract...

In this paper we consider a Lagrange Multiplier-type test (LM) to detect change in the mean of time series with heteroskedasticity of unknown form. We derive the limiting distribution under the null, and prove the consistency of the test against the alternative of either an abrupt or smooth...