Consider a population of citizens uniformly spread over the entire plane, that faces a problem of locating public facilities to be used by its members. The cost of every facility is financed by its usersonly, who in addition face an idiosyncratic private access cost to the facility. We assume that the facilities’ cost is independent of location and access costs are linear with respect to the Eu...

In most Western countries females have higher rates of suicidal ideation and behavior than males, yet mortality from suicide is typically lower for females than for males. This article explores the gender paradox of suicidal behavior, examines its validity, and critically examines some of the explanations, concluding that the gender paradox of suicidal behavior is a real phenomenon and not a me...

the following questions were discussed in the round table, and the commission votes as follows: 459- with the supposition of the death of defendant after issuing absent vote and protesting by the heirs, if the protested verdict finally gets certain against the heirs, is it possible to apply article 2 of the execution of financial convictions’ law against the heirs? opinion of minority of votes ...

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INA (that stands for Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) is the French institute in charge of the archiving for radio and television. INA archives programs broadcasted by the French public radio or TV channels. But INA is also in charge of the legal deposit for Audiovisual: INA archives a selection of all programs broadcasted in France, be they by private or public channels. As a consequence, I...

Private provision of public roads through build-operate-transfer (BOT) contracts is increasing around the world. Under a BOT contract, a private firm would build a road, charge tolls to road users for a period, and then transfer the road to the government. By viewing a BOT contract as a combination of three variables of concession period, road capacity and toll charge, we study optimal BOT cont...