Franke & Piller (2003) stress the success of mass customization (MC) depends upon optimal toolkit design and underscore the importance of the MC co-design experience. However, what do we know about the value of this experience? How do we increase its value? How do we optimize toolkit design?...

De plus en plus d'organisations mobilisent des sites comme Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin ou Viadeo dans leur politique de Recrutement. Toutefois ces nouvelles pratiques sont peu étudiées. L'objectif de cette communication est de mieux comprendre ce phénomène à l'aide de quatre cas concrets....

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...

Today, numerous works conclude that transport seems to be completely coupled to economic and export/import growth. Therefore, as a direct consequence of economic development transport sits today as one of the major final energy consumers and one of the most important sources of carbon dioxide...

La politique de ciblage d'inflation est un régime monétaire qui vise l'inflation. Sa pratique a été marquée par une grande stabilité observée aux débuts des années 90 et 2000. Un débat émerge sur l'efficacité et la performance économique de ce régime. De nombreuses recherches se...

We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority population. When it comes to natives with an immigrant background, these differences are very little...

The economic performance of some OECD countries over the past decade, most notably the United States, has renewed the interest of analysts and policy makers on economic growth and on how policy can eventually support it. This report sheds some light on this issue by relying on harmonised macro...

Since the early eighties, the emergent economies, as the majority of the OECD members have implemented a broad financial liberalization process. The changes occur in coordination mode related to the liberalization were accompanied by a strong banking instability which reveals the major role...

Les économistes orthodoxes prétendent que la libre concurrence assure le meilleur fonctionnement des économies de marchés. Les désordres récents ne résulteraient donc pas d'une concurrence débridée, mais plutôt du manque de concurrence. Cette position est plus forte qu'il n'y paraît,...

Les institutions ont longtemps été tenues à l'écart du paradigme dominant en économie. Elles ont fait apparemment un retour triomphal dans les discours et les travaux académiques après les échecs des politiques d'austérité menée par les institutions de Bretton Woods durant les...