infonet-economy

Cette postface tente d'apporter une synthèse aux travaux du Colloque sur le racisme et la tolérance. Elle repart de la distinction inévitable entre tolérable et intolérable. En quelque sorte, le tolérable se pose comme ce qui est différent, peut-être dérangeant, irritant, mais qui se situe tout de même à l'intérieur d'un espace similaire au mien, appelant chacun à la...

Cet article rend compte de l'histoire de la guerre d'Algérie depuis les "évènements d'Algérie" jusqu'à la bataille d'Alger. Il rend compte des différents contextes politiques ayant présidé à la rupture de la paix civile et aux engagement militaires contre-insurectionnels.

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education effort exerted by parents which depends on the distribution of...

Present anti-terrorist policy concentrates almost exclusively on deterrence. It seeks to fend off terrorism by raising the cost of undertaking terrorist acts. This paper argues that deterrence policy is less effective than generally thoughtnand induces in some cases even more terrorism. This is, in particular, the case if deterrence policy induces a centralisation of decision-making...

Präsentation an den "Thematischen Tagen WTO" der Kantonsschule Trogen; 22. November 2002; Download: (124 KB)

Public choice theory takes citizens as rationally ignorant about political issues, because the costs of being informed greatly exceed the utility individuals derive from it. The costs of information (supply side) as well as the utility of information (demand side), however, can vary substantially depending on the political system under which citizens live. Using survey data from the...

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak assumptions. The idea is to measure the program-effects by pre- and post-treatment data that are very close in time for the same individual. Our approach provides useful information on...

We examine experimentally how Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) respond to incentives and how they provide incentives in situations requiring trust and trustworthiness. As a control we compare the behavior of CEOs with the behavior of students. We find that CEOs are consider-ably more trusting and exhibit more trustworthiness than students-thus reaching substantially higher efficiency...