infonet-economy

The WTO is facing difficult times as the renewal of the members of its Appellate Body seems to be in a deadlock. The opposition of some Members of the Organization to the process means the number of adjudicators is slowly dwindling. In this paper, we put this problem in context, by linking it to the greater concerns about consent in international adjudication. Consent amounts to the...

Supporters of European integration have always argued that it has brought peace. Yet no scientific study has ever developed a critical approach to such a claim. To remedy this surprising deficiency, the author builds a typology that will help to distinguish the two main opposing approaches to this question: that of the Europeanists and that of the Eurosceptics. The dialectical...

Fictions du réel et politiques de la menace: une analyse de 84 films de science-fiction américaine de 1995 à 2016

"Ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez ?" Étude de la myopie électorale appliquée au vote économique dans le cadre des élections générales britanniques de 2010

The influence of bilateral aid in the foreign policy preferences of recipient countries: The case of China and Costa Rica (2000-2013

Black and white men in America : étude sur la racialisation des shooters selon leur couleur de peau dans les médias CNN et Fox news

On oppression: Animals, the absent referent

We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of 6,000 miles. We show that improving an airport’s position in the network of air links has a...

Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three types of school misconduct: (i) disruptiveness in class, (ii) homework non-completion, and (...