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Previous research on corporate social responsibility generally acknowledges that consumers develop more favourable perceptions of responsible firms. Yet few empirical works have focused on the effects of the firm's societal communication and of its characteristics on brand equity. In this paper...
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Les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne ont à scolariser un nombre croissant d'enfants, dans un contexte d'approfondissement de la pauvreté. Si les taux de scolarisation sont plus faibles en milieu rural, les villes connaissent également de fortes difficultés. Cet article analyse, pour Conakry,...
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In asserting that the number of firms reporting small profits is abnormally high, thus suggesting that earnings management has taken place, accounting researchers assume that the distribution of reported earnings should be smooth for unmanaged earnings. This has never in fact been demonstrated....
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We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of bargaining power on the design and the selection of contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent of unknown type. In our second treatment, a principal can select...
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L'envolée récente des prix des commodités depuis fin 2010ouvre à nouveau le débat de la mesure desconséquences de l'inflation alimentaire sur la pauvreté.Cet article offre un éclairage méthodologique grâce à une revue critique de la littérature et propose de nouvelles pistes de...
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We conducted a sensitivity analysis of results in weighted voting experiments by varying the following two features of the protocol by Montero et al. (2008): (a) the way subjects' roles are reassigned in each round (random versus semi-fixed roles) and (b) the number of proposals that subjects...
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This paper aims at understanding whether firms should engage in CSR communications towards consumers, or let independent third parties do so. A generalisable sample of 275 adults participated in an experiment, manipulating third-parties credible information (positive information, negative, or...
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Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...
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En matière d'offre de santé en Afrique subsaharienne, les villes apparaissent mieux loties que les villages; aussi, les disparités d'accessibilité aux lieux de soins ont-elles été peu étudiées à l'échelle intra-urbaine. Dans quelle mesure, en contexte de pauvreté, l'accès des...
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Le développement des données longitudinales a rendu possible depuis une trentaine d'années dans les pays industrialisés l'apparition d'un large éventail de recherches centrées sur la dynamique des phénomènes de pauvreté et d'exclusion sociale. Ces études de la pauvreté en termes de...
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