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The goal of this project is to understand the strategies of vertically related firms within an industry, in terms of either competition or bargaining, and to analyze their consequences on the price, variety and quality of the products offered to consumers. This issue is essential both to understand

The simultaneous excavations launched on three sites located along the Kura River but in different environmental conditions (Aruchlo in Georgia, Mentesh Tepe and Kamiltepe in Azerbaijan) aimed at understanding the Neolithisation process at work in southern Caucasus and its evolution through time wit

In the course of the past twenty years the literature on prepositions has contributed to a renewed approach to their syntax, semantics and distribution. Yet to date no statistical analyses have been carried out on large corpora to detect diachronic variations in the prepositions’ preferred combinati

EIKON is dedicated to the reconstruction of the “life” of these portraits. The sculpture in the round portraits, in other words plastic representations of historical characters, makes up one of the characteristic traits of the visual culture of the Ancient Greek and Roman world, and this since the A

Uncertainty is key in many interactions among economic agents. It can be simple and repeated (one then speaks of risk) or complex and new (this is then called ambiguity). Game theory has extensively studied risky situations, both to characterize non deterministic outcomes or to characterize the natu

L'objectif est d'augmenter considérablement l'utilisabilité et l'efficacité des logiciels d'apprentissage de la composante orale d'une langue étrangère en adaptant le contenu, les retours fournis par le système et les exercices en fonction de l'apprenant. Pour cela on se concentrera sur l'apprentiss

We propose to study the physiognomy of a city as the result of transnational exchanges, thus applying to Architecture the approach developed by the Cross-national History (histoire croisée). Strasbourg is an excellent case study for such an endeavor as this city is the junction where German and Fre

he project “Gustave Flaubert and the power of images” is in alignment with a previous research project (“Fractal”: “Flaubert: Religions, Antiquity, Creation”) that addressed the implication of religions, mythography and Antiquity in the writing processes. The aim is to define both the visual paradi

The aim of this project is to shed a new light on the development of the cell theory in the 19th century, in France and Germany. One part of the project will investigate the pre-history of central categories of the cell theory such as “individuality”, “universality”, the analogy between “organism” a

Historical waves of divergence and/or convergence resulted in the current heterogeneity of levels and patterns of mortality, which is particularly massive worldwide but also quite signifiant within developed countries. In particular, waves of divergence have recently evolved in complex ways across t

This project is a development of previous investigations carried out respectively in Azerbaijan, on the salt mine of Duzdagi and the settlement of Ovçular Tepesi, and in Georgia, on the gold mines and related landscape of Sakdrissi/Dzedzvebi. Our research programme will take place in two regions: 1)

The objective of the project was to study the acculturation of the Latin text of Ovid's Metamorphoses by the French Ovide moralisé, using twenty manuscripts which contain glosses, sometimes elaborate iconographic programs and, above all, are divided into several very different versions. Studying and

The “Critical Theory of Society” represents a specific field of research in the German and French contemporary philosophical discussion but it cannot be subsumed under a unified paradigm of thinking. This ANR/DFG programme of research undertakes a systematic investigation about “criticism”. CActuS s

The main goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a model and an instructional method to develop teenage students' awareness and use of multiple documents. Our approach is grounded in an analysis of the new demands of contemporary societies on individuals' comprehension and use of documentary

Since about two decades, central banks have become more and more transparent in the conduct of their monetary policy. A central bank’s monetary policy has a dual role: stabilizing the economy and providing public information about what the central bank knows about the fundamental state of the econom