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"The fertility transition in Kenya : patterns and determinants"
(2008-04-03)
In spite of considerable research on Kenya’s fertility, questions remain. This dissertation
examines three of these issues - the national and sub-national trend patterns in the country’s
fertility and related proximate ...
Breaking the silence : International conference on the Indian residential schools commission of Canada ; Montréal, Canada, 26-27 septembre 2008
(Université de Montréal. Centre de recherche en éthique, 2008-09)
This is the full audio recording of the "Breaking the silence : International conference on the Indian residential schools commission of Canada" that took place at the University of Montreal on September 26-27, 2008.
Monetary Policy by Committee:Consensus, Chairman Dominance or Simple Majority?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-02)
This paper studies the theoretical and empirical implications of monetary policy making by committee under three different voting protocols. The protocols are a consensus model, where super-majority is required for a policy ...
The Efficient Use of Multiple Sources of a Nonrenewable Resource under Supply Cost Uncertainty
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
Uncertainties as to future supply costs of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, raise the issue of the choice of supply sources. In a perfectly deterministic world, an efficient use of multiple sources of ...
Poverty and Time
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual ...
Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er ...
Self-other asymmetry
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2008-03)
In this paper, I present a non standard objection to moral impartialism. My idea is that moral
impartialism is questionable when it is committed to a principle we have reasons to reject: the
principle of self-other ...