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This paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of the conditional probability of leaving unemployment for four waves of French married men and women entering unemployment from 1991 to 2002. The effect of spouse's hourly earnings on unemployment duration is found to be asymmetric for...
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This paper investigates empirically the relationships between the corruption climate and the demand for good governance by focusing on firms' behaviors in developing countries. The concept of demand for good governance is conceived in terms of a firm's willingness to comply with regulatory norms...
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This paper develops a Lagrangian discretization multiagent model for large-scale multimodal simulation and assignment. For road traffic flow modeling, we describe the dynamics of vehicle packets based on a macroscopic model on the basis of a Lagrangian discretization. The metro/tram/train...
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Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based on the EDF, an aggregation of differences in...
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We suscribe to an account of framing-effects in decision theory in terms of an inference to a background informationa by the hearer when a speaker uses a certain frame while other equivalent frames were also available. This account was sketched by Craig McKenzie. We embed it in Bolker-Jeffrey...
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This paper studies how the imperfect collateral assignments of patents contribute to "deep pockets'' savings of innovative firms facing random investment opportunities in research and development (R&D) and determine the growth of their innovations, using a version of the Kiyotaki and Moore...
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Le thème de l'information et de la connaissance est relativement récent en économie. Nous retraçons historiquement son émergence et nous présentons les théorisations proposées initialement. Non pas par souci de rappeler les éléments d'une histoire d'ailleurs pas encore écrite, mais...
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La théorie de la concurrence monopolistique, qui fut développée au cours des années 20 et 30 par Sraffa, Robinson et Chamberlin, permit aux économistes de s'intéresser plus particulièrement aux théories de la firme et de remettre en cause les raisonnements en termes de marché et...
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A l'heure où les papys boomers vont commencer à partir à la retraite et où pointent d'éventuels problèmes de pénurie de main-d'œuvre dans les années à venir, comment la France se positionne-t-elle pour assurer le renouvellement démographique nécessaire à la performance économique...
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Avec une participation croissante des femmes au marché du travail et la transformation des modes de vie en couple, les familles à deux actifs sont maintenant un modèle dominant. Il est alors légitime de se demander si une nouvelle répartition des rôles se met en place, les hommes prenant...
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