Déchets radioactifs : retour sur l’évaluation socio-économique du projet Cigéo

La Revue de L’Energie 2021, Nov-Dec. — Julie de Brux, Patrice Geoffron, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Reza Lahidji, Jacques Percebois, Émile Quinet Abstract This papCigéo vise à stocker en couche géologique profonde les déchets radioactifs les plus dangereux. L’évaluation socio-économique (ESE) du projet est destinée à analyser les gains et les coûts pour la collectivité, notamment par…

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Renegotiations and Renewals of Public Contracts

Review of Industrial Organization, 59, pages 461–482 (2021)— Jean Beuve et Stéphane Saussier Abstract This paper examines the impact of renegotiations on contract renewals. Using an original dataset of procurement contracts in the French car park sector, we show that there exists an optimal level of renegotiations that positively affects the probability of renewing a contract…

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Renegotiations of public contracts: A blessing in disguise?

Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies, CEPR book, Oriana Bandiera, Erica Bosio, Giancarlo Spagnolo (Eds). 2021, Nov — Jean Beuve et Stéphane Saussier Abstract Because they address services of general interest and they involve vast amounts of publicmoney (on average 12% of global GDP; see Bosio et al. 2021), renegotiations of publiccontracts are a…

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Social distancing beliefs and mobility: Evidence from Twitter

PLOS One, 16(3), 2021., Porcher, S., Renault T. Abstract To understand the extent to which a policy instrument’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate We construct a novel database containing hundreds of thousands geotagged messages related to the COVID-19 pandemic sent…

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Policy Design for Covid19: Worldwide Evidence on the Efficacies of Early Mask Mandates and other Policy Interventions

Public Administration Review, 2021, Septembre, An, Y., Porcher, S., Tan, S-Y and Kim, E. Abstract To understand the extent to which a policy instrument’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate adoptions and COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. The analysis shows that…

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Culture and the Quality of Government

Public Administration Review, 81(2), pp. 333-343, 2021., Porcher, S. Abstract To understand the extent to which a policy instrument’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate This article uses a cross-country data set to empirically investigate the relationship between national culture and…

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CSR Communication and Firms’ Ability to Win Public Procurement Contracts

European Journal of Management and Business Economics 2021, Forthcoming — O. Kaddouri et S. Saussier Abstract This paper examines the link between the corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication efforts of companies and their ability to obtain public procurement contracts by focusing on the study of the Business-to-Government (B-to-G) market. By exploiting a database with the…

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When Utility Aggregations Fail to Deliver Cost Savings

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March 2020 In: Network Industries Quarterly — Michael Klien. Abstract: There is growing evidence that utility aggregations do not necessarily lead to cost savings. In this paper I use a global database of utilities to document how aggregations change utilities with respect to network density and cost structure. I argue that aggregations typically do not…

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