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The aim of this article is to analyse the consequences of some structural reforms on the institutional coherence of OECD countries, particularly Continental Europe, and on their economic performance, particularly employment. Because institutions in developed political economies are interrelated...
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According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on innovative activity measured by patenting. The sample...
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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 indivudual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....
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This paper studies how credit rationing affects endogenous growth when capital and debt are related to the firm´s internal net worth, taken as collateral. The accumulation of firm´s net worth determines the growth rate of capital and the growth rate of the economy. The relation between growth...
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Les performances économiques de l'Allemagne et du Japon laissent supposer qu'une faible concurrence entre les intermédiaires financiers n'est pas nécessairement un obstacle à la croissance. Cet article présente un modèle de croissance endogène ne comportant un secteur d'intermédiation...
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In this paper, financial infrastructures increase the efficiency of the banking sector: they decrease the market power (due to horizontal differentiation) of the financial intermediaries, lower the cost of capital, increase the number of depositors and the amount of intermediated savings,...
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Cet article propose un modèle de croissance endogène dans lequel on introduit des intermédiaires financiers en concurrence imparfaite et une rémunération du capital soumise à un choc macroéconomique. Les anticipations rationnelles des ménages sur le risque de faillites bancaires (dont...
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The paper investigates, from the welfare and growth point of view, the determination of the optimal capacity of the banking system. For that purpose, we consider an overlapping generation model with endogenous growth. There is horizontal differentiation and imperfect competition in the banking...
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Dans le cadre d´un modèle de croissance endogène fondé sur l´innovation, cet article compare deux modes de financement de l´économie. Dans un cas, le financement est assuré par une multitude de petits prêteurs, dans l´autre, une seule grande banque fournit l´ensemble des prêts. Il...
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Cet article s'interroge sur les conséquences des réformes structurelles sur le ou les modèles(s) européens de capitalisme. Il effectue une analyse critique de l'idéologie de la réforme et isole un certain nombre de ses fondations. Sont présentés certains résultats empiriques qui...
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