Avantages comparatifs et évolutions de l'emploi manufacturier entre 1980 et 200. Le cas de l'Italie, l'Allemagne, la Grande-Bretagne et la France.

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Croissance économique : dynamique des métropoles américaines.

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Le secteur public et la convergence : une analyse avec des données régionales canadiennes.

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Innovation dans les technologies de l'information et croissance économique.

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Le commerce extérieur est-il un instrument de croissance viable pour l'Amérique latine? Une étude empirique des gains de croissance économique provenant du commerce.

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L'intégration économique et le marché nord-américain des télécommunications.

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Intrégration économique et convergence : le cas de l'Australie.

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Communication and Economic Growth.

Overs the past millennium, each of the three centuries of most rapid demographic growth in the West Coincided with the diffusion of a new communications technology. This paper examines the hypothesis of Harold Innis (1894-1952) that there is two-way feeback between such innovations and economic growth.

The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949-1989.

Why do some organizations decline while other do not? to study this issue , we introduce technological change into a theory of agency proposed by Laffont and Tirole. We show that the optimal organizational form for production depends on the estent of scale ecoomies and on the cost of monitoring workers. When the discrepancy between ideal and actual forms becomes too great, an organization's viability is threatened. We test this structuralist hypothesis for East and west Gemany over the 1949-1989 period. east Germany's relative decline is explained by an institutional structure the proved incompatible with technological change favoring smaller, flatter organizations.

The Rationality of Revolution.

Did the recent transition to liberal democracy in Eastern Europe consitute revolutions? Here, game theory is used to structure an explanation of institutional change proposed by Harold Innis (1950).