In this article we develop a dynamic model where an endogenous evolution of trust impacts a politician's choice for bribe-taking and tax re-distribution. The politician obtains utility from net income that comes from his wage income, tax embezzlements and bribe-taking, and he also has incentives...

This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...

Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate...

On considère généralement que le développement des secteurs industriels est lié à la croissance ou au développement économique. Il est aussi usuel de considérer que les relatives mauvaises performances des pays africains sont expliquées par des obstacles à l'industrialisation, qu'ils...

The emergence of a knowledge capitalism is often considered as an alternative to a financial capitalism. Our goal is to explain why the financial capitalism hypothesis is not relevant to characterize and to show that the hypothesis of a knowledge capitalism can provide an explanation of the...

A la question de savoir ce qu'est la New economy, nous répondons en proposant une double distinction : (i) la distinction des discours tenus sur l'économie U.S. des années quatre-vingt dix et des caractéristiques “réelles” de cette économie, et (ii) la distinction de trois acceptions...

Nous allons définir et présenter la notion de capitalisme cognitif (section 1), avant de rendre compte de ses origines (section 2). Puis nous en soulignerons certains traits spécifiques du point de vue de la division du travail (section 3) et en ce qui concerne la question de la nouvelle...

We explore in this paper cubature formulas over the space of functions having a first continuous derivative, i.e., C^1. We show that known cubature formulas are not optimal in this case and explain what is the origin of the loss of optimality and how to construct optimal ones; to illustrate we...

Initialement conçu à destination des organisations marchandes, le management de projet s'est progressivement étendu au secteur non lucratif. Cette communication cible l'articulation entre le management de projet et la gouvernance des organisations non lucratives et discute des conditions de...

This article analyzes the "escape from competition effect" in a step-by-step framework in which a succesful firm may either leapfrog the previous leader or catch-up its technology. Innovation and growth are affected by both the intensity of competition and the probability of leapfrogging.