Experiencing fairness at school: An international study

A 7-year-old boy experiencing difficulty at school.

Experiencing Infrastructures Sharing for International Research Activities

The Visionair Project aims at the creation of a distributed infrastructure of technological facilities in Europe as a visible, attractive entry point towards research and experimentation in high level visualisation, virtual reality and augmented reality fields, for hosting international researchers and giving them the opportunity of trying and practicing their ideas and their research topics. T...

International School

A most important task for the risk control group of a bank is to "translate" senior management's risk appetite into absolute constraints on positions created by the traders on the floor. The directive from senior management might be "The bank can suffer a loss exceeding 3 MSEK at most once a month, and a loss exceeding 10 MSEK at most once a year". On the other hand, in the communication with t...

Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements

In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements. Thereafter, we offer a critique of the efficiency criterion in assessing multilateral trade agreements, taking issue with T.N. Srinivasan’s (2006) analysis and t...

Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison (REVISED VERSION)

This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social multipliers (Glaeser et al. 2000, 2003) suggest that both native-tonative and migrant-to-migrant peer effect...