infonet-economy

Le président Barack Obama cherche le «juste équilibre» entre les besoins de sécurité de la société américaine et la protection de la liberté du citoyen. L'exercice est précaire, des travaux académiques ont montré les limites de l'image de la balance.

This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events within a set of Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the country or the regions within countries - changes in the world demand of agricultural commodities, financial crises...

This paper builds a new dataset with detailed information on the universe of foreign government bonds issued in New York in the 1920s and uses these data to describe the behavior of the financial intermediaries which operated in the New York market during the period leading to the interwar debt crisis. The paper starts by showing that concerns over reputation played an important role...