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3 septembre 2012
Jean-Paul Azam et Kartika Bhatia
n° 12-316, août 2012
This paper presents a model of provocation in a federation, where the local government triggers an insurgency with a view to acquire the control of some economic assets with the help of the central government. Some econometric support for this model is found using data on the Naxalite conflict that...
Jeremy Chaudourne et Patrick Fève
n° 12-331, août 2012
This paper studies the statistical properties of impulse response functions in structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) with a highly persistent variable as hours worked and long-run identifying restrictions. The highly persistent variable is specified as a nearly stationary persistent process....
Julien Daubanes, André Grimaud et Luc Rougé
n° 12-337, août 2012
The "green paradox" literature points out that environmental policies which are anticipated to become gradually more stringent over time may induce a more rapid extraction of fossil fuels, thus having a detrimental effect to the environment. The manifestation of such phenomena has been extensively...
Henrik Andersson et Mikael Ögren
n° 12-358, août 2012
By combining standardized calculation methods for total noise levels and monetary estimates from well established evaluation methods, this study outlines a model to estimate the short run marginal cost (SRMC) for road and railway noise that is able to differentiate not only modes of transport, but...
Guillaume Cheikbossian et Philippe Mahenc
n° 13-390, août 2012
This paper analyzes how the stability of the tacit cooperation within a fringe of sev- eral identical ?rms is affected by the presence of a more e¢ cient ?rm which does not take part in their cooperative agreement. The model assumes that the ?rms of the fringe adopt ?stick and carrot?strategies à...
Ilya Segal et Michael Whinston
août 2012
Léopold Simar, Anne Vanhems et Paul Wilson
vol. 220, n° 3, août 2012, p. 853–864
In productivity and efficiency analysis, the technical efficiency of a production unit is measured through its distance to the efficient frontier of the production set. The most familiar non-parametric methods use Farrell-Debreu, Shephard, or hyperbolic radial measures. These approaches require...
Doh-Shin Jeon et Domenico Menicucci
vol. 102, n° 5, août 2012, p. 1957–1985
Lucas Maestri
vol. 4, n° 3, août 2012, p. 34–56
