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Expansion of market finance and urban development in Asia, the case of China and India – FINURBASIE
The aim of the project is to go beyond generalized, aspatial approaches and examine the geographies of these financial circuits and underline their processes of territorial differentiation. This means removing obstacles linked to the opacity of information in these countries by developing in-depth k
SMEs’ Bankruptcy Risk in Europe: a “Law & Finance” Perspective – EURODEF
The ability of European economies to face successfully the current crisis depends on the strength of their industrial systems, and especially on how SMEs can cope with the risk of default. Our project aims at analyzing the bankruptcy process of SMEs in Europe, by using a Law & economics perspective.
Political Decision within the European Union – EUROPOLIX
The European Union’s institutional system is a key element of EU policy-making, because it influences both the adoption and implementation of joint decisions. However, it remains ill understood, including (to a certain extent) by the scholarly community. First, Europoliw helps understa
European Commission regulation, its consequences on practices, conflicts and performance in franchising: a multidisciplinary and international approach – FRANBLE
This research program aims to examine and assess the impact of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices and its Guidelines on Ve
Firm, Trade and Production in early modern Europe (14th-17th cies). The case of the Salviati companies. – ENPRESA
The Salviati Archive preserves for its most past part trade companies and industrial (ie textile) production firms records. Investigating these document is the best way to go beyond the current descriptive or institutionnalist approach and reach the field of choices and network dynamics. Calendaring
Animal Companions: theorizing animals relationships to work. – COW
In the Western world essentially, the “animal issue” is one of the important parameters of social relations. The theories about animal liberation imply radical new relationships with them and possibly a break with domestic animals. Also, the “animal issue” potentially entails economic changes. Crit
Political Economy of the Environment – EPE
Our objective is to analyse how public policy decisions linked to the environment emerge, focusing on five contexts: 1) the presence of private strategies to protect the environment: consumer purchases based on environmental impact and “virtuous” business strategies such as socially responsible in
Basis and determinants of compensatory allowance after divorce – COMPRES
Until the 1970’s, the French law stipulated that in case of divorce the richer spouse might have to pay a life annuity to the poorer spouse, due to the indissoluble nature of marriage and the gendered division of labor inside couples : the husband had to guarantee income to his ex-wife, regardless o
State and the Institutions facing Witchcraft in Contemporary Africa. Violence, Justice and Human Rights. – EINSA
In several areas of Africa, witchcraft and the successive chains of violence starting from suspicion or rumour, leading to public accusation and ending in killing or lynching are becoming quite alarming today. From village to town, from private space to public space, the media exploitation and the p
Competition policy, procurement, and regulation: From theory to practice – POLICRE
We aim at shedding light on why and how the intervention of public authorities is necessary to promote and organize the industrial activity. More in particular, we aim at reducing the gap between economic theory and the empirical literature. Most of the previous contributions have been theoretical.
The pre-milky food (gift and neonatal consumption of the colostrum): practices, representations and issues in public health. – COLOSTRUM
Overall, the specificity of the project consists in: i)being the first, at an international level, completely dedicated to the very initial phase of human feeding: the ingestion of colostrum; ii)investigating cultural variables susceptible to explain consumption or not of colostrum in the target cou
Towards New Tools for Temporal Dimensions in Models of Economics – Novo Tempus
This research proposal is motivated by the conviction that the understanding of time within economic models is still largely unsatisfactory and that progress towards the apprehension of the new and not yet well understood time dimensions of economic activity is to be made in order to provide a range
HEROIN IN FRANCE. A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EXTENSION OF HEROIN USE AND TRAFFICKING 1968-2004 – HERO
The object of the proposed research is to examine the circulation of heroin in France between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 21st century. How, during this period, did heroin consumption, once confined to a limited number of restricted circles of consumers, become extended to a far gr
The biographical consequences of activism. Life course, networks and context – SOMBRERO
SOMBRERO aims at studying the biographical consequences of participation into social movements. It is from the angle of how trajectories are formed that we propose to broach this question and to determine what involvement leads to rather than, more conventionally, what produces involvement. Thus, it
Childhood and Parenthood Dynamics in rural Africa – DyPE
The project analyses trends in children's family network and the influence of family environnement on children's care and well-being, in rural Western Africa. The project focuses, in particular, on the dynamics resulting from the emergence of new models of socialization and their confrontation wit