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Eductive Stability In Real Business Cycle Models
November 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors re-examine issues of coordination in the standard RBC model. Can the unique the unique rational expectations equilibrium be "Educed" by rational agents who contemplate the possibility...
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Advertising And R&D: Theory And Evidence From France
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper exploits a unique panel of 59,000 French firms over 1990-2004 to investigate the interactions between R&D, advertising and the competitive environment. The empirical findings confirm...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness In Developing Countries?
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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The Non-monetary Side Of The Global Disinflation
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The dramatic decline in inflation across the world over the last 20 years has been largely credited to improved monetary policy. The universal nature of the phenomenon and its simultaneity with...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Natural Natural Disasters And Economic Disruption
October 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The cost of natural calamities is not limited to direct damages and immediate material costs. Economies in the wake of severe shocks experience important slowdowns and long business disruptions....
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Persistent Anti-market Culture: A Legacy Of The Pale Of Settlement And Of The Holocaust
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the long-term effects of the important presence of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and their disappearance during the Holocaust. The Pale of Settlement,...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Liquidity, Risk And Occupational Choices
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore whether financial constraints matter and which financial constraints matter the most in the choice of becoming an entrepreneur. They exploit a randomly assigned welfare program...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Are Gifts And Loans Between Households Voluntary?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Using village data from Tanzania, the authors test whether gifts and loans between households are voluntary while correcting for misreporting by the giving and receiving households. Two maintained...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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How To Regulate A Financial Market? The Impact Of The 1893-1898 Regulatory Reforms On The Paris Bourse
January 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Theoretical and historical experience suggests a financial centre may either include a single, consolidated and loosely regulated stock exchange attracting all intermediaries and actors, or a...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Information Revelation In A Security Market: The Impact Of Uncertain Participation
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper analyzes how uncertainty on traders' participation affects a competitive security market in which there are some informed traders. The authors show that discontinuities, or "Crashes",...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Innovation And Skill Upgrading: The Role Of External Vs Internal Labour Markets
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Following technical and organisational changes, firms may react to increasing skill requirements either by training or hiring the new skills, or a combination of the two. Using matched datasets...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Bankruptcy Law And Practice In 19th Century France
December 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors try to measure the impact of the changes in French bankruptcy law in the 19th century focusing on the behaviour of economic agents as users of bankruptcy law for the...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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An Exploration Of Type Indeterminacy In Strategic Decision-Making
February 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Type Indeterminacy model is a theoretical framework that formalizes the constructive preference perspective suggested by Kahneman and Tversky. In this paper the authors explore an extension of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship And Job Satisfaction
February 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased...
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Optimal Tax Policy And Expected Longevity: A Mean And Variance Utility Approach
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can influence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the...
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Patent Office In Innovation Policy: Nobody~s Perfect
April 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The number of patent applications and "Bad" patents issued has been rising rapidly in recent years. Based on this trend, the authors study the overload problem within the Patent Office and its...
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Technical Change In A Neoclassical Two-Sector Model Of Optimal Growth
April 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates into the asymmetrical consequences of consumption-specific and investment-specific technical change in a two-sector growth framework. Hicks-neutral technological shocks of...
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The Co-Evolution Of Social Capital And Financial Development
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over the twentieth century. The author uses cross generations inherited trust of...
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Optimal Growth And The Golden Rule In A Two-Sector Model Of Capital Accumulation
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors contribute to the literature on optimal growth in two-sector models by solving a Ramsey problem with a concave utility function. The unique possible steady-state is independent of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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International Labour Standards And Product Differentiation
April 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the last decades the interaction between Labour Standards and International Trade has assumed new importance. The authors use an incentive based-approach to assess the efficiency of trade...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Potential Output Growth In Several Industrialised Countries: A Comparison
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies -Canada, the euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Competition, R&D And The Cost Of Innovation
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a model in the spirit of Aghion et al. (2005) that relates the magnitude of the impact of competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Product Innovation And Imitation In A Duopoly With Differentiation By Attributes
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a probabilistic duopoly in which products are described by their specific attributes, this form of differentiation embodying the horizontal and vertical dimensions. Consumers...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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Monetary Policy Uncertainty And Macroeconomic Performance: An Extended Non-Bayesian Framework
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The existing literature has shown that less political uncertainty, or more central bank transparency, may worsen macroeconomic performance by raising the nominal wage. The authors extend this...
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Growth Strategies And Poverty Reduction: The Institutional Complementarity Hypothesis
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper starts from the limits of the policies that assume a significant de-connection between antipoverty strategies and the logic of the growth regime and that mainly rely upon market...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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The Paris Financial Market In The 19th Century: An Efficient Multi-Polar Organization ?
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The literature in financial history usually considers London as the only centre of the late 19th century's financial globalization, and explains it at least in part by the efficient microstructure...
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Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: The Role Of Knowledge Codification
April 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. The authors argue that increasing knowledge codification made...
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The Geometry Of Global Production And Factor Price Equalisation
April 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a production economy where commodities are partitioned into irreproducible factors and reproducible goods, and the production technologies have constant returns to scale. They...
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Interest Rate Rules And Global Determinacy: An Alternative To The Taylor Principle
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A most wellknown determinacy condition on interest rate rules is the "Taylor principle", which says that nominal interest rates should respond more than hundred percent to inflation....
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The Formation Of Financial Industries In USA, France And Russia
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Despite the multiplicity of research on the surge of the financial industry the world over, little is done to understand the national context shaping the objectives and designs of this economic...
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Finance And The Rise In Inequalities In France
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, the authors show that wage inequalities started to increase in France in the mid-1990s. This phenomenon is limited to the top end of...
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Finance And The Rise In Inequalities In France
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, the authors show that wage inequalities started to increase in France in the mid-1990s. This phenomenon is limited to the top end of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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White Papers
The Formation Of Financial Industries In USA, France And Russia
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Despite the multiplicity of research on the surge of the financial industry the world over, little is done to understand the national context shaping the objectives and designs of this economic...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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White Papers
Interest Rate Rules And Global Determinacy: An Alternative To The Taylor Principle
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A most wellknown determinacy condition on interest rate rules is the "Taylor principle", which says that nominal interest rates should respond more than hundred percent to inflation....
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
The Geometry Of Global Production And Factor Price Equalisation
April 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a production economy where commodities are partitioned into irreproducible factors and reproducible goods, and the production technologies have constant returns to scale. They...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: The Role Of Knowledge Codification
April 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. The authors argue that increasing knowledge codification made...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
The Paris Financial Market In The 19th Century: An Efficient Multi-Polar Organization ?
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The literature in financial history usually considers London as the only centre of the late 19th century's financial globalization, and explains it at least in part by the efficient microstructure...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Growth Strategies And Poverty Reduction: The Institutional Complementarity Hypothesis
April 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper starts from the limits of the policies that assume a significant de-connection between antipoverty strategies and the logic of the growth regime and that mainly rely upon market...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Monetary Policy Uncertainty And Macroeconomic Performance: An Extended Non-Bayesian Framework
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The existing literature has shown that less political uncertainty, or more central bank transparency, may worsen macroeconomic performance by raising the nominal wage. The authors extend this...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Product Innovation And Imitation In A Duopoly With Differentiation By Attributes
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a probabilistic duopoly in which products are described by their specific attributes, this form of differentiation embodying the horizontal and vertical dimensions. Consumers...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Competition, R&D And The Cost Of Innovation
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a model in the spirit of Aghion et al. (2005) that relates the magnitude of the impact of competition on R&D to the cost of innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Potential Output Growth In Several Industrialised Countries: A Comparison
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies -Canada, the euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
International Labour Standards And Product Differentiation
April 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the last decades the interaction between Labour Standards and International Trade has assumed new importance. The authors use an incentive based-approach to assess the efficiency of trade...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Optimal Growth And The Golden Rule In A Two-Sector Model Of Capital Accumulation
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors contribute to the literature on optimal growth in two-sector models by solving a Ramsey problem with a concave utility function. The unique possible steady-state is independent of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
The Co-Evolution Of Social Capital And Financial Development
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over the twentieth century. The author uses cross generations inherited trust of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Technical Change In A Neoclassical Two-Sector Model Of Optimal Growth
April 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates into the asymmetrical consequences of consumption-specific and investment-specific technical change in a two-sector growth framework. Hicks-neutral technological shocks of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Patent Office In Innovation Policy: Nobody~s Perfect
April 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The number of patent applications and "Bad" patents issued has been rising rapidly in recent years. Based on this trend, the authors study the overload problem within the Patent Office and its...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Optimal Tax Policy And Expected Longevity: A Mean And Variance Utility Approach
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can influence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Financial Development, Entrepreneurship And Job Satisfaction
February 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
An Exploration Of Type Indeterminacy In Strategic Decision-Making
February 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Type Indeterminacy model is a theoretical framework that formalizes the constructive preference perspective suggested by Kahneman and Tversky. In this paper the authors explore an extension of...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Bankruptcy Law And Practice In 19th Century France
December 6, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors try to measure the impact of the changes in French bankruptcy law in the 19th century focusing on the behaviour of economic agents as users of bankruptcy law for the...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Innovation And Skill Upgrading: The Role Of External Vs Internal Labour Markets
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Following technical and organisational changes, firms may react to increasing skill requirements either by training or hiring the new skills, or a combination of the two. Using matched datasets...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Information Revelation In A Security Market: The Impact Of Uncertain Participation
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper analyzes how uncertainty on traders' participation affects a competitive security market in which there are some informed traders. The authors show that discontinuities, or "Crashes",...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
How To Regulate A Financial Market? The Impact Of The 1893-1898 Regulatory Reforms On The Paris Bourse
January 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Theoretical and historical experience suggests a financial centre may either include a single, consolidated and loosely regulated stock exchange attracting all intermediaries and actors, or a...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Are Gifts And Loans Between Households Voluntary?
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Using village data from Tanzania, the authors test whether gifts and loans between households are voluntary while correcting for misreporting by the giving and receiving households. Two maintained...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Liquidity, Risk And Occupational Choices
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore whether financial constraints matter and which financial constraints matter the most in the choice of becoming an entrepreneur. They exploit a randomly assigned welfare program...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Persistent Anti-market Culture: A Legacy Of The Pale Of Settlement And Of The Holocaust
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the long-term effects of the important presence of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and their disappearance during the Holocaust. The Pale of Settlement,...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Natural Natural Disasters And Economic Disruption
October 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The cost of natural calamities is not limited to direct damages and immediate material costs. Economies in the wake of severe shocks experience important slowdowns and long business disruptions....
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
The Non-monetary Side Of The Global Disinflation
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The dramatic decline in inflation across the world over the last 20 years has been largely credited to improved monetary policy. The universal nature of the phenomenon and its simultaneity with...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness In Developing Countries?
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Advertising And R&D: Theory And Evidence From France
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper exploits a unique panel of 59,000 French firms over 1990-2004 to investigate the interactions between R&D, advertising and the competitive environment. The empirical findings confirm...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
-
White Papers
Eductive Stability In Real Business Cycle Models
November 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors re-examine issues of coordination in the standard RBC model. Can the unique the unique rational expectations equilibrium be "Educed" by rational agents who contemplate the possibility...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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