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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Contract renewals, prices and deprivatizations: The case of water in France

January 2021 In: Applied Economics — Alexandre Mayol et Stéphane Saussier Abstract In this paper, we studied the influence of contract renewals on water prices in France. When studying French water contracts in force between 2008 and 2018, we found that contract renewals have little influence on the prices paid by consumers. However, at contract…

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Plural Governance for the Management of Local Public Services: An Empirical Investigation on the French Car Park Industry

December 2020 In: M@n@gement — Zoé Le Squeren Abstract This paper investigates the use of plural governance for the provision of local public services. Most of the studies conducted on local data compare direct public provision (i.e., in-house provision where governments produce public services themselves, using their own equipment and employees) to contracting out. But…

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The economics of street-level prostitution in Paris during the ‘Belle Epoque’ (1870-1914)

June 2020 In: Applied Economics — Alexandre Frondizi and Simon Porcher Abstract How can districts become completely embedded in informal economies despite harsh state regulation? In this paper, we use qualitative and quantitative data to explain the increasing number of ‘clandestine’ street-level prostitutes in a district of Paris during the Belle Epoque (1870–1914). Using an original dataset on street-level prostitutes, we…

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Le métier d’enseignant-chercheur au révélateur de la situation de crise

May 2020 In: Le Libellio — Xavier Weppe, Zoé Le Squeren, Xavier Lecocq Introduction L’ émergence et la diffusion planétaire du virus Covid-19, abréviation de « Corona Virus Disease 2019 », détecté la première fois en Novembre 2019 dans un marché de la sixième ville chinoise (Wuhan), provoque depuis quelques semaines une crise sanitaire, économique…

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