Institut d'Economie Scientifique Et de Gestion

Unemployment Insurance for All? Social Preferences Evolution in Europe Since the Lifting of the Iron Curtain

ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of social preferences over government unemployment insurance in Europe. We find an ‘East‐West divide’ in attitudes towards this role of government policy, with lower support in Eastern Europe for government action to correct adverse labo...

How do monetary incentives affect the measurement of social preferences?

Abstract In this registered report, we investigate (i) whether incentives affect subjects’ willingness to pay to increase and to decrease the payoff of others, (ii) whether they affect the distribution of social preference types, and (iii) whether they affect the strength and the...

Social Capital as a Risk Mitigation Mechanism in Informal Credit Markets: A Theoretical Model

Purpose: This paper formalises social collateral as an endogenous decision variable to explain interest rate heterogeneity and persistent poverty traps in informal credit markets. Study design: Household optimisation is embedded within a lender zero-profit condition. A default pr...

Trade Measures—Relationships and Implications

ABSTRACT Various value‐added trade measures have been developed to address the concern in the growing volume of trade in intermediates that are double counted when crossing international borders more than once. This paper raises a query and makes an inquiry into the query. How tr...

Corporate Compliance with the French Duty of Vigilance Act: Evidence from a Qualitative Study

This paper examines how firms subject to the French Duty of Vigilance Act (DVA), a pioneering legal framework requiring the development and monitoring of vigilance plans to identify risks and prevent serious human rights violations, approach legal compliance in practice. Drawing...

Determinants of Contracts and Wages in the Women’s National Basketball Association

Compensation in the WNBA reflects both player performance and institutional arrangements. Exploring data on 263 newly signed contracts from 2017 to 2024, this study investigates determinants of wages and contract length. Regression results indicate a persistent wage increase foll...

Human Nature as a Universal Compass: A Virtue Ethics Approach to Diversity and Inclusion

This article advances a virtue-ethical foundation for the respectful and meaningful management of diversity and inclusion, grounded in the notion of human nature. Human beings share a common form of life that provides an objective and universal account of what is good for us to f...