Les décisions de l'Autorité de la concurrence en matière de contentieux ou de concentration sont publiques. Pourtant elles sont, selon le lectorat, soit trop techniques, soit pas assez. En effet, il paraît difficile de soutenir qu'un citoyen, fut-il même chef d'entreprise, soit en mesure de...

The paper by Ji and Wang (2013) calls new attention on the analysis of the effects of the direction of technological change. The aim of this paper is to better articulate and test the theoretical arguments that the direction of technological changes has specific effects on the efficiency of the...

This paper provides new evidence on international productivity gaps; this evidence is obtained from large-scale rm-level data from the French and Japanese manufacturing industries using non-parametric methodologies designed to overcome confidentiality restrictions. Our primary finding is that...

This paper investigates the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and both exports and imports from Japan. Using the Poisson pseudomaximum likelihood (PPML) estimator developed by Santos Silva and Tenreyro (2006) to deal with the problem of zero trade flows when estimating...

This paper adds to the growing empirical evidence on the importance of habits in governing human behaviour, and sheds new light on individual inertia in relation to transportation behaviour. An enriched perspective rooted in Veblenian evolutionary economics (VEE) is used to construct a...

Our paper aims at understanding the determinants of households' selective waste sorting behavior. Based on data from an original survey of the French PACA Region of 694 individuals, we first apply polychoric principal components analysis to reduce the number of explanatory variables to a set of...

The object of this paper is to assert the implications, in terms of practices of the community of economists, of the adoption of specific mathematical tools. More precisely, the aim of this paper is to assert the non-neutrality of the mathematical tools used by economists and to show that, after...

Using a sample of 212 IPOs, this paper analyzes the impact of venture capital involvement on the survival time of French IPOs. We find that the ability of venture capitalists to improve the survival of companies is related to the duration of their investment. We show that venture capitalists do...

L'objet de cet article est de montrer que l'analyse ordolibérale offre une conception dans laquelle la théorie économique, le droit et la politique sont clairement articulés. Cette pensée, relativement méconnue, à l'exception de la question de l'indépendance de la banque centrale du...

In this paper we test whether policies that induce tangible asset growth among domestic companies are effective in increasing their entry into export markets. We solve the endogeneity problem inherent to the empirical investigation of the growth-export relationship by adopting an instrumental...