In 1978, Bourdieu and Saint Martin wrote a famous study, « Le patronat », which was based on a multiple correspondence analysis of French corporate elite. In this paper, we<np pagenum="024"/> go back to their notion of ?field of economic power? and apply their methodology to the 838 executive and...

Cet article étudie les dirigeants français des entreprises du CAC 40 à la fin de 2007 en s'intéressant particulièrement aux filières de formation supérieure qu'ils ont suivies. Les anciens élèves des grandes écoles les plus élitistes (Ecole polytechnique, HEC, ENA) continuent de...

[eng] Asian crisis and architecture of the international financial and monetary system : a synthesis of the debates in the United-States. One year after its beginning, the Asian crisis, and its consequences on the reform of the international financial and monetary system, remains the object of...

The common-pool problem is a central issue in the relationship between the political structure of jurisdictions and the size of public spending. Models predict that, other things being equal, greater political districting of a jurisdiction raises the scale of government. This paper presents new...

We compare the general tax provisions and investment incentives in the Philippines to six other east-Asian economies - Malaysia, Indonesia, Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. We calculate effective tax rates and find that general effective tax rates are relatively high in the Philippines,...

We investigate how the number and size of local political jurisdictions in an area is determined. Our model focuses on the tradeoff between the benefits of economies of scale and the costs of a heterogeneous population. We consider heterogeneity in income, race, ethnicity, and religion, and we...

Politicians may use disguised' redistributive policies in order to circumvent opposition to explicit tax-transfer schemes. First, we present a theoretical model that formalizes this hypothesis; then we provide evidence that in US cities, politicians use public employment as such a redistributive...

We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...