(november 2015) 5 papers... in 5 minutes!
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Chinese Firms’ Entry to Export Markets: The Role of Foreign Export Spillovers - Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet.
In 2013, China became the greatest trading power in the world, ahead of the United States. But almost half of its exports (47 per cent in 2013) are made by foreign companies in Chinese territory...
Short link to this article: http://bit.ly/1Job0vu
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Voluntary Contributions to a Mutual Insurance Pool - Louis Lévy-Garboua, Claude Montmarquette, Jonathan Vaksmann and Marie-Claire Villeval.
Contractual insurance, non-binding and revocable, does not protect individuals from all the hazards of existence. Mutual aid is thus a substitute for the insurance market, offering an informal insurance...
Short link to this article: http://bit.ly/1m3Juij
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Wealth effects on consumption across the wealth distribution: empirical evidence - Luc Arrondel, Pierre Lamarche and Frédérique Savignac.
The link between consumption and wealth has been at the heart of some key questions of economic theory for some time. According to the cycle-of-life hypothesis of the 1950s, accumulated wealth meant that households could smooth their consumption over time...
Short link to this article: http://bit.ly/1QFg8Dp
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Should we extract the European shale gas? The effect of climate and financial constraints - Fanny Henriet and Katheline Schubert.
In France, hydraulic fracturing is prohibited by the Jacob Law of 13 July 2011. This position, supported by a majority of the population can seem puzzling at a time when France is trying to reduce its dependance on nuclear energy while also trying to prevent increases in the price of electricity...
Short link to this article: http://bit.ly/22ksnJn
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An allocation rule for dynamic random network formation processes - Jean-François Caulier, Michel Grabisch and Agnieszka Rusinowska.
Networks, whether social or economic, have become very present in our daily lives. Accordingly, they are the object of numerous studies in both sociology and economics, in operational and IT research...
Short link to this article: http://bit.ly/1PjxrIK