Taxation, redistribution, and observability in social dilemmas
International audience
Beyond the personal-anonymous divide : Agency relations in powers of attorney in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth...
Powers of attorney are often interpreted as evidence of trust among the parties involved. We build a novel dataset of notarized powers of attorney, capturing a wide variety of agency relationships in four large French commercial cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to test hypotheses on the relational basis of economic relationships. ...
Gender and competition: Evidence from academic promotions in France
International audience
Worker mobility and the purchase of low CO2 emission vehicles in France: a datamining approach
Marginal deadweight loss when the income tax is nonlinear
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Smarter Cities’ Attractiveness. Testing New Criteria or Facets: “Data Scientists” and “Data Platforms”
The promotion of cities has usually been done by means of “attractiveness’ indicators.” “The New Economic Geography” and the book of Richard Florida about “The Rise of the Creative Class” have attempted to justify the choice of indicators of new forms of attractiveness. New dashboards containing indicators of the context (infrastructures and other ...
Central banking under the gold standard: Rist versus Hawtrey on the policy of the Bank of France from 1928 to 1931
It is widely believed that the difficult return to the gold standard during the 1920s and its demise in 1931 intensified the Great Depression. An interesting way of thinking about national and international monetary mechanisms emerged from the debates between French and British policymakers during those years. We attempt to explain the failure of t...
Performance of impact investing: A value creation approach
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The economic importance of judicial institutions, their performance and the proper way to measure them
Forthcoming
The economic importance of judicial institutions, their performance and the proper way to measure them
Forthcoming
