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Inter-temporal Price Discrimination when Imports are Restricted by Quotas
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)A dominant firm holding import quota engages in inter-temporal price discrimination when facing a competitive fringe engaged in seasonal production. This causes a welfare loss that comes in addition the loss attributable to limitation of imports below ... -
Interactions sociales et réseaux sociaux en économique : modélisation et estimation
(2013-12-10)Cette thèse comporte trois essais sur les interactions sociales en sciences économiques. Ces essais s’intéressent à la fois au côté théeorique qu’empirique des interactions sociales. Le premier essai (chapitre 2) se concentre sur l’étude (théorique et ... -
Intergenerational Contracts, Remittances, and Growth
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Intergenerational Contracts, Remittances, and Growth
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International Business Cycles: What Are the Facts?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2000)Modern business cycle theory involves developing models that explain stylized facts. For this strategy to be successful, these facts should be well established. In this paper, we focus on the stylized facts of international business cycles. We use the ... -
International Transmission of the Business Cycle in a Multi-Sector Model
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2000)Multi-country models have not been very successful in replicating important features of the international transmission of business cycles. Standard models predict cross-country correlations of output and consumption which are respectively too low and ... -
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2004)This paper, which is to be published as a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, provides an introduction to social-choice theory with interpersonal comparisons of well-being. We argue that the most promising route of escape from the ... -
Intertemporal and Spatial Depletion of Landfills
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1997)This paper generalizes Hotelling's (1931) theory of nonrenewable resources to situations where resource pools and their users are distributed spacially. Extraction and transport costs are assumed to be linear in the rate of extraction, but utilization ... -
Intertemporal Material Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-06)Individual well-being is multidimensional and various aspects of the quality of life need to be jointly considered in its measurement. The axiomatic literature on the subject has proposed many indices of multidimensional poverty and deprivation ... -
Intertemporal Social Evaluation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2005)Intertemporal social-evaluation rules provide us with social criteria that can be used to assess the relative desirability of utility distributions across generations. The trade-offs between the well-being of different generations implicit in each such ... -
Introducing Spatial Competition Through an Autoregressive Continunous Distributed (AR-C-D) Process in Intercity Generation-Distribution Models within a Quasi-Direct Format (QDF)
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An Introduction to Insurance Economics
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Investment Under Demand Uncertainty: the Newsboy Problem Revisited
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our ... -
Investment Under Demand Uncertainty: the Newsboy Problem Revisited
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty but there is no flexibility in our ... -
Investment, Taxation and Econometric Policy Evaluation: Some Evidence on the Lucas Critique
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Is Seasonal Adjustment a Linear or Nonlinear Data Filtring Process
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Jumps in the Volatility of Financial Markets
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1999)Recent work suggests that the conditional variance of financial returns may exhibit sudden jumps. This paper extends a non-parametric procedure to detect discontinuities in otherwise continuous functions of a random variable developed by Delgado and ... -
Labor Market Institutions and Gender Differences in Wage Inequality
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1996)In this paper, we present graphical and quantitative evidence on the important role played by changes in labor market institutions on the rise in wage inequality in the United States during the 1980s. We show that the decline in the real value of the ... -
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: a Semiparametric Approach
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Land Ownership, Working Capital, and the Agricultural Output: Egypt, 1913-1958
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995)A simple model is constructed in which short-term credit is needed to finance the purchase of inputs, in which there is bankruptcy risk, and in which we argue were important characteristics of Egyptian agriculture during the first half of this century, ... -
Land Ownership, Working Capital, and the Agricultural Output: Egypt, 1913-1958
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995)A simple model is constructed in which short-term credit is needed to finance the purchase of inputs, in which there is bankruptcy risk, and in which we argue were important characteristics of Egyptian agriculture during the first half of this century, ... -
Latent Variable Models for Stochastic Discount Factors
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2000)Latent variable models in finance originate both from asset pricing theory and time series analysis. These two strands of literature appeal to two different concepts of latent structures, which are both useful to reduce the dimension of a statistical ... -
Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)Poor countries have lower PPP–adjusted investment rates and face higher relative prices of investment goods. It has been suggested that this happens either because these countries have a relatively lower TFP in industries producing capital goods, or ... -
Legal shifts : shaping expectations of intellectual property protection in an open innovation industrial environment
(2016-05-25)Ce mémoire vise à évaluer les effets de variations des attentes des firmes quant à la protection conférée par les droits de propriété intellectuelle (« PI ») pour les inventions et innovations dans un milieu industriel d’innovation ouverte. D’abord, ... -
Libéralisation commerciale, développement financier et inégalités de revenu
(2012-11-02)Nous avons mené une étude empirique pour tester les conclusions théoriques d'un article de Foellmi et Oeschlin (2010), selon lesquelles la libéralisation commerciale accroît les inégalités de revenu dans les pays dont les marchés financiers sont affectés ... -
Libéralisation du marché du café et inégalité
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Lien Entre Capital Fictif, Markup Flexible et Inflation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1985)Dans Cet Article J'ai Cherche a Demontrer les Liens Qui Existent Entre la Theorie Quantitative de la Monnaie, la Theorie du \"Markup\" et L'inflation. Bien Qu'il Ne Soit Pas Necessaire D'admettre L'equilibre et les Courbes Is-Lm, Ma Theorie du Capital ... -
Liquidity traps, capital flows
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2015-12-17)Motivated by debates surrounding international capital flows during the Great Recession, we conduct a positive and normative analysis of capital flows when a region of the global economy experiences a liquidity trap. Capital flows reduce inefficient ... -
Local Interactions
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2010-06)Local interactions refer to social and economic phenomena where individuals' choices are influenced by the choices of others who are "close" to them socially or geographically. This represents a fairly accurate picture of human experience. Furthermore, ... -
Logique et tests d'hypotheses: reflexions sur les problemes mal poses en econometrie
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2001)Dans ce texte, nous analysons les développements récents de l’économétrie à la lumière de la théorie des tests statistiques. Nous revoyons d’abord quelques principes fondamentaux de philosophie des sciences et de théorie statistique, en mettant l’accent ... -
La Loi d'urgence sur l'aide à l'exploitation des mines d'or, ou, les silences du fantôme de Bretton Woods
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1982) -
Looking for Evidence of Speculative Stockholding in Commodity Markets
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 1995)