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A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over three countries: France (Lyon, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Rennes), Switzerland (Geneva, Bern and Zurich) and Belgium (Brussels), based on individual travel survey data collected...
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Transport currently accounts for around 25-30% of global CO2 emissions and this contribution is growing rapidly. Moreover, road transport holds by far the major part in these emissions. Because of the social and political reluctance to increase fuel taxation, it is of some interest to explore...
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This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim...
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Polycentrism in cities is studied with the help of an agent-based model grounded in the Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM) framework, using microeconomic interactions between heterogeneous agents. This model is shown to reproduce the standard urban equilibrium with two income groups. Two job centers at...
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Temporal rhythms in travel and activity patterns are analysed thanks to a seven-day travel diary collected on 707 individuals in the city of Ghent (Belgium) in 2008. Our analysis confirms the large level of intrapersonal variability whether for daily trips, home-based tours, time use and...
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L'étude de la relation paysage - marché n'est pas aisée car elle met en perspective deux réalités difficiles à appréhender : le marché et le paysage. L'introduction du présent ouvrage a exposé une revue des approches et des définitions du paysage. Pour ce chapitre la définition...
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This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372719
La loi d'orientation agricole du 26 mai 1999 consacre son titre premier à institutionnaliser la multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture en proposant aux agriculteurs des contrats territoriaux d'exploitation. Les CTE sont une nouvelle tentative de réconciliation de l'agriculture et de...
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L'objet de cet article est de présenter l'importante littérature qui s'est développée à la frontière des sciences économiques et de gestion autour du rôle de l'entrepreneur dans la croissance économique et d'en discuter les conclusions. Le message de ces travaux est simple : sans...
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Cet article montre à partir de l'étude du statut du fermage (1), des coopératives (2) et de l'exploitation agricole (3) que le droit rural français est un droit socio-économique qui s'est développé sur la base d'une théorie économique ignorant le rôle des prix, des institutions de la...
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