This paper studies the impact of global financial turmoil on the exchange rate policies in emerging countries. Many emerging countries have loosened the link of their currencies to the US dollar since the bursting of the subprime crisis in July 2007. Spillovers from advanced financial markets to...

Should we (really) raise tuition fees ? This article offers a critical analysis of the usual arguments in favour of tuition fees: 1) the iniquity of the French system, 2) market efficiency to select, guide and encourage the effort, 3) the financing of the university. We defend the thesis that,...

Ce papier vise à contribuer à la réflexion sur la responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise en examinant l'apport d'un précurseur en la matière, l'économiste institutionnaliste américain JR. Commons. Celui-ci pose la question du rapport de l'entreprise à la société à partir d'une...

Après avoir rappelé qu'un régime par capitalisation ne garantissait ni équité, ni efficience, ni même le financement de l'enseignement supérieur, nous définissons ce que pourrait être un régime d'éducation par répartition et discuté de ses atouts et limites, pour construire une...

In this paper, we highlight the link between the political demand and social policy outcome while taking into account the design of the party system. The political demand is measured by individual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....

Is this because the asymmetric trade relations between China and the Brazil have intensified that Brazil knows a "early deindustrialization"? For Asian countries, growth is consistent with industrialization, for Latin American countries, it is not more often. Industrialization on the one hand,...