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L’effacement des dettes des particuliers surendettés : une étude empirique des décisions judiciaires
No full textAn Empirical Analysis of French Personal Bankruptcy Law.
This paper explores the mechanisms employed by French judges to discharge personal debts of over-indebted households in exchange for the liquidation of their assets. We use an original database consisting of judiciary decisions between 2003 and 2005. We highlight the determinants of selection between debtorswhose debts are cancelled and those who are ordered to repay them. Debtorswho are less able to repay have a greater chance of benefiting froma fresh start. If the repayment capacity increases by 1%, the predicted probability of debt discharge decreases by a little more than 1%. Overall, courts erase household debts in a rather restrictiveway, applying criteria not limited to an assessment of debtors’ financial situation.Cet article analyse le mécanisme judiciaire de traitement des situations de surendettement de ménages français. Nous étudions les conditions sous lesquelles un particulier bénéficie d’un effacement de ses dettes en échange d’une liquidation de son patrimoine. Nous réalisons un travail empirique sur la base d’observations issues d’une base de données originale de décisions judiciaires rendues par des tribunaux d’instance de 2003 à 2005. Une hausse de 1 % de la capacité de remboursement du débiteur diminue la probabilité de bénéficier d’une procédure de rétablissement personnel d’un peu plus de 1%. Au total, l’effacement du passif est décidé de manière assez restrictive par les tribunaux, sur la base de critères ne se limitant pas à une simple appréciation financière de la situation des débiteurs.Blazy Régis, Chopard Bertrand, Langlais Eric, Ziane Ydriss. L’effacement des dettes des particuliers surendettés : une étude empirique des décisions judiciaires. In: Économie & prévision, n°202-203, 2013. Economie du droit. pp. 81-99
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
« Ex post » vs « Ex ante » : le cas de l’économie du droit de la faillite
No full textBankruptcy law : justification and reform
This article deals with the Law and Economics approach of bankruptcy law. The author presents this field of research in two parts. First, he studies the conditions of ex post efficiency in the sense that stakeholders select the issue which maximizes the value of the financially distressed firm. In other words, the author justifies the existence of bankruptcy rules as a way of coordinating stakeholders on the optimal issue. Second, he studies the impact of bankruptcy rules on debtors’ and creditors’ ex ante behaviours, that is to say before the financial distress. At this time, he considers both alternative models of bankruptcy resolution and the impact of current bankruptcy rules on stakeholders’ strategies. Based on these new considerations, the author tries to explain the diversity of various national bankruptcy systems.
JEL Classification : G33, K29Cet article offre une revue de la littérature en économie du droit de la faillite. L’auteur montre comment l’économiste appréhende ce droit particulier et traite la question de son efficacité ex post et de son efficacité ex ante. Dans le premier cas, il juge le droit de la faillite au vu du critère de la maximisation de la valeur de l’entreprise en difficulté. Dans le second cas, l’auteur étudie comment l’économiste analyse les règles de droit par le prisme des effets qu’elles devraient normalement produire, notamment des incitations sur le comportement du débiteur et des créanciers. Il aborde, en particulier, les problèmes liés à la dissimulation des difficultés financières, à l’effort des dirigeants déterminant le résultat de l’entreprise, à la prise de risque ou aux stratégies d’enracinement des dirigeants. Enfin, l’auteur discute également l’hypothèse selon laquelle la diversité des codes de la faillite nationaux serait liée aux différences entre les systèmes financiers des pays.
Classification JEL : G33, K29Chopard Bertrand. « Ex post » vs « Ex ante » : le cas de l’économie du droit de la faillite . In: Revue d'économie financière, n°81, 2005. Fonctionnement des systèmes bancaires et financiers. pp. 291-303
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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