infonet-economy

This lecture is structured like a Hegelian triade. The initial thesis states the fundamental equality of all human beings, which is the core of the human rights philosophy. The antithesis acknowledges the fact of the nation-state which is a serious obstacle to the full implementation of human rights because of its intrinsic exclusive nature. The synthesis sketches a reconciliation of...

Trust has become of increasing interest in many scientific domains, including economics, social psychology, sociology, and marketing (Blois 1999). Marketing studies have demonstrated that trust is an essential ingredient for successful relationship marketing (Doney and Cannon 1997; Morgan and Hunt 1994). In fact, Berry states: “Relationship marketing is based on the foundations of...

Building on earlier work by Estevadeordal (2000), we construct a synthetic index (R-index) intending to capture the restrictiveness of rules of origin in preferential trading agreements. The R-index is applied to NAFTA and the Single List of the EU's PANEURO system covering all of the EU's preferential trade agreements. The R-index highlights how a common set of rules of...

La question centrale concerne la mesure dans laquelle les partis politiques belges ont intégré une dimension de genre et la portée des règles adoptée dans ce cadre. Dans un premier temps, les mécanismes de recrutement et de sélection de l’élite politique et la gestion des ressources humaines des partis politiques seront identifiés dans le cadre d’une revue de littérature....

Ce mémoire traite de l’impact des clivages sur le choix partisan en Suisse lors des élections fédérales de 1995 à 2003, en particulier du clivage entre les gagnants et les perdants de la mondialisation et du clivage de classe traditionnel. L'analyse porte à la fois sur l'évolution de cet impact dans le temps (entre 1995 et 2003) et par type de système de partis cantonaux (...

Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser's recent book, Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe, exemplifies the recent incursion of economists into the domains of political science and sociology. In thinking about welfare states, economists have traditionally been interested in their effects on the distribution of income and, above all, their implications for efficiency and growth....