Recueil de pièces sur l'histoire de France, provenant des frères DE SAINTE-MARTHE. II.

Catalogue des évêques de Mayence (fol. 4), — Besançon (fol. 32), — Metz (fol. 51), — Chiemsee (fol. 68), — Trèves (fol. 72). — Souscriptions d'archevêques et évêques à divers conciles (fol. 99). — Liste de relations diplomatiques et géographiques du XVIe siècle, en italien (fol. 137). — Quartiers du duc de Bourgogne, petit-fils de Louis XIV, 1684 (fol. 141, 306). — « Discours de ce qui s'est passé en la ville de Poictiers ès années 1588 et 1589 » (fol. 153) ; armorial des maires de Poitiers (fol. 165), suivi d'autres pièces sur le Poitou. — « Mémoires de la ville de Loudun et du pays de Loudunois, par M. Louis Trincant, procureur du Roy au siège de Loudun » (fol. 192), suivi de pièces justificatives et de deux lettres de Trincant aux frères de Sainte-Marthe (fol. 262, 263). — « Discours concernant l'usurpation de la Navarre, dresséz par Arnaud d'Oihénart, avocat en la Cour de parlement de Navarre » (fol. 272). — Généalogies de la maison de Prunelay (fol. 302), — et des Borgia (fol. 346). — Extraits d'une histoire de Suède (fol. 308). — Épitaphes de l'abbaye du Val au diocèse de Paris (fol. 328), et inscriptions ou épitaphes diverses, entre autres des Villequier, des ducs de Lorraine, de Marguerite de Valois (fol. 368). — Catalogue des auteurs cités dans l'Histoire généalogique des Sainte-Marthe (fol. 386). — Voyages à travers la France (fol. 406 et 491), la Hollande et l'Angleterre (fol. 436). — Liste des personnes auxquelles les Sainte-Marthe ont fait présent de leurs ouvrages (fol. 470). — Note sur la reine Christine de Suède (fol. 484). — Conquête de la Hollande, 1672 (fol. 496). — Évêques de Pologne (fol. 519). — Discours de la Servitude volontaire, de La Boétie (fol. 551).

崇禎曆書Chong zheng li shu.Collection relative au calendrier, années Chong zheng.

Contient : I恒星曆指Heng xing li zhi.Théorie des étoiles fixes ; II恒星經緯表Heng xing jing wei biao.Tables des latitudes et longitudes des étoiles fixes

Heng xing li zhi.

Théorie des étoiles fixes.Feuillets détachés.

« Divers mémoires, traittez et lettres particulières concernant les affaires d'Espagne et de Portugal. » (1653-1696).

Il y a une table détaillée des pièces en tête du volume.

Deux mémoires par lesquels sont établis les droits de Louis XI, comme roi de France, sur les duché et comté de Bourgogne, comtés de Mâcon et d'Auxerre, comté d'Artois, contre les prétentions opposées de Maximilien d'Autriche, agissant au nom de sa femme Marie de Bourgogne, fille et héritière de Charles le Téméraire, duc de Bourgogne.

Le premier mémoire, qui concerne la Bourgogne, la comté de Bourgogne, les comtés de Mâcon et d'Auxerre, occupe les feuillets 1 à 94. Premiers mots : « Sur la question qui est entre le duc d'Auteriche et madame la duchesse sa femme, d'une part, et le roy de France très christien, nostre souverain seigneur Loys neufiesme de ce nom, d'aultre part, touchant les terres et seigneuries que le duc Charles de Bourgongne, dernier trespassé, père de ladicte madame la duchesse, tenoit, possidoit, occupoit, usurpoit ou pretendoit y avoir droit, à divers tiltres et par divers moyens, et en divers lieux, contrées et parties de ce royaulme ; et mesmement, en tant que touche la duché et la conté de Bourgongne, et les contez de Mascon et d'Ausserre, dient mesdis seigneur et dame, duc et duchesse, les choses qui s'ensuivent ... ». Derniers mots : « ... ainsi que plus à plain dessus est declairé ». Le second mémoire, qui concerne la comté d'Artois, occupe les feuillets 99 à 136. Premiers mots : « Pour oster l'erreur de ceulx qui cuident et veullent maintenir que la conté d'Artois n'est pas subgecte à retour à la couronne de France, en deffaulte des hoirs masles, et que c'est fief femenin... ». Derniers mots : « ... et ycelle conté joindre et unir à la dicte couronne, ainsi que les aultres terres et seignouries appartenans à icelle, etc. Fine le livre touchant la conté d'Artoys ». Les feuillets 2 à 6 ont été refaits en écriture gothique au XVIe siècle.

How Important Are Intergenerational Transfers of Time? a Macroeconomic Analysis.

This paper examines the implications of intergenerational transfers of time and money for labor supply and capital accumulation. Although intergenerational transfers of time in the form of grandparenting are as substantial as monetary transfers in the data, little is known about the role and importance of time transfers. In this paper, we calibrate an overlapping generations model extended to allow for both time and monetary transfers to the US economy. We use simulations to show that time transfers have important positive effects on capital accumulation and that these effects can be as significant as those of monetary transfers. However, while time transfers increase the labor supply of the young, monetary transfers produce an income effect that tends to decrease work effort. We also find that child care tax credits have little impact on parental time and money transfers, but that a universal child tax credit would increase the welfare of the rich while the poor would benefit from a means-tested program.

International Transmission of the Business Cycle in a Multi-Sector Model.

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 too high. In this paper, we build a multi-country model of the business cycle with multiple sectors in order to analyze the role of sectoral shocks in the international transmission of the business cycle. We find that a model with multiple sectors generates a higher cross-country correlation of output than standard one-sector models, and a lower cross-country correlation of consumption. In addition, it predicts cross-country correlations of employment and investment that are closer to the data than the standard model. We also analyze the relative effects of multiple sectors, trade in intermediate goods, imperfect substitution between domestic and foreign goods, home preference, capital adjustment costs, and capital depreciation on the international transmission of the business cycle.

A Prudent Central Banker

This paper studies monetary policy in an economy where the central banker's preferences are asymmetric around optimal inflation. In particular, positive deviations from the optimum can be weighted more, or less, severely than negative deviations in the policy maker's loss function. It is shown that under asymmetric preferences, uncertainty can induce a prudent behavior on the part of the central banker. Since the prudence motive can be large enough to override the inflation bias, optimal monetary policy could be implemented even in the absence of rules, reputation, or contractual mechanisms. For certain parameter values, a deflationary bias can arise in equilibrium.

Wage Policy of Firms: an Empirical Investigation.

This paper analyzes the dynamics of wages and workers' mobility within firms with a hierarchical structure of job levels. The theoretical model proposed by Gibbons and Waldman (1999), that combines the notions of human capital accumulation, job rank assignments based on comparative advantage and learning about workers' abilities, is implemented empirically to measure the importance of these elements in explaining the wage policy of firms. Survey data from the GSOEP (German Socio-Economic Panel) are used to draw conclusions on the common features characterizing the wage policy of firms from a large sample of firms. The GSOEP survey also provides information on the worker's rank within his firm which is usually not available in other surveys. The results are consistent with non-random selection of workers onto the rungs of a job ladder. There is no direct evidence of learning about workers' unobserved abilities but the analysis reveals that unmeasured ability is an important factor driving wage dynamics. Finally, job rank effects remain significant even after controlling for measured and unmeasured characteristics.

Trade Liberalization and the Profitability of Domestic Mergers.

It is often thought that a tariff reduction, by opening up the domestic market to foreign firms, should lessen the need for a policy aimed at discouraging domestic mergers. This implicitly assumes that the tariff in question is sufficiently high to prevent foreign firms from selling in the domestic market. However, not all tariffs are prohibitive, so that foreign firms may be present in the domestic market before it is abolished. Furthermore, even if the tariff is prohibitive, a merger of domestic firms may render it nonprohibitive, thus inviting foreign firms to penetrate the domestic market. In this paper, we show, using a simple example, that in the latter two cases, abolishing the tariff may in fact make the domestic merger more profitable. Hence, trade liberalization will not necessarily reduce the profitability of domestic mergers.

Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions and the Gender Gap.

In this paper, we model the interactions between the distribution of male and female wages under the assumption that any change in the wage distribution of women must be offset by an opposite change in the wage distribution of men.

Investment Under Demand Uncertainty: the Newsboy Problem Revisited.

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 one-period framework. We show how the introduction of global uncertainty reduces the investment of the risk neutral entrepreneur and, even more, that the risk averse one. We also show how marginal increases in risk reduce the optimal capacity of both the risk neutral and the risk averse entrepreneur, without any restriction on the concave utility function and with limited restrictions on the definition of a mean preserving spread. These general results are explained by the fact that the newsboy has a piecewise-linear, and concave, monetary payoff witha kink endogenously determined at the level of optimal capacity. Our results are compared with those in the two literatures on price uncertainty and demand uncertainty, and particularly, with the recent contributions of Eeckhoudt, Gollier and Schlesinger (1991, 1995).

Reported Job Satisfaction : What Does It Mean?

By reporting his satisfaction with his job or any other experience, an individual does not communicate the number of utils that he feels. Instead, he expresses his posterior preference over available alternatives conditional on acquired knowledge of the past. This new interpretation of reported job satisfaction restores the power of microeconomic theory without denying the essential role of discrepancies between one’s situation and available opportunities. Posterior human wealth discrepancies are found to be the best predictor of reported job satisfaction. Static models of relative utility and other subjective well-being assumptions are all unambiguously rejected by the data, as well as an \"economic\" model in which job satisfaction is a measure of posterior human wealth. The \"posterior choice\" model readily explains why so many people usually report themselves as happy or satisfied, why both younger and older age groups are insensitive to current earning discrepancies, and why the past weighs more heavily than the present and the future.

Heterodox Inflation Stabilization in Argentina, Brazil, and Israel. A Historical Review and Some Stylized Facts

This article presents a review of the stabilization attempts in Argentina, Brazil, and Israel during the 1980’s. Earlier research is summarized and complemented with additional sources of contemporaneous information and a detailed analysis of institutional features. The examination of these episodes underscores the strong economic and empirical relationship between the governments’ fiscal policy and the rate of inflation.

Explaining the Persistence of Commodity Prices

This paper extends the Competitive Storage Model by incorporating prominent features of the production process and financial markets. A major limitation of this basic model is that it cannot successfully explain the degree of serial correlation observed in actual data. The proposed extensions build on the observation that in order to generate a high degree of price persistence, a model must incorporate features such that agents are willing to hold stocks more often than predicted by the basic model. We therefore allow unique characteristics of the production and trading mechanisms to provide the required incentives. Specifically, the proposed models introduce (i) gestation lags in production with heteroskedastic supply shocks, (ii) multiperiod forward contracts, and (iii) a convenience return to inventory holding. The rational expectations solutions for twelve commodities are numerically solved. Simulations are then employed to assess the effects of the above extensions on the time series properties of commodity prices. Results indicate that each of the features above partially account for the persistence and occasional spikes observed in actual data. Evidence is presented that the precautionary demand for stocks might play a substantial role in the dynamics of commodity prices.