En réponse au cadre concurrentiel renforcé mis en place par la directive MIF pour l’exécution des ordres, les différentes catégories d’acteurs concernés cherchent à s’adapter au mieux aux évolutions induites tant par les modifications réglementaires que par les évolutions...

This paper contribtes to the small empirical literature dealing with strategic tax behaviors of small EU countries. We estimate tax reaction functions of national governments competing with each other. Deriving a simple model of tax competition in a Nash and Stackelberg framework, we use panel...

The need to control tax competition has been debated at length within several international institutions. The question is of great importance for France, generally considered as poorly rated in this competition. The first part of this paper examines the messages delivered by the theoretical...

Value based management was considered as the major managerial innovation of the nineties: managers were to supposed to be turned into owners through redesigned compensation packages including value creation metrics such as EVA and the like, increased influence of shareholders on firms’...

Les relations de coopération inter entreprises ont connu un essor important depuis les années 1990. Pourtant, les partenaires et concurrents dans le partage des fruits de leur coopération, peinent à maintenir des relations de long terme. La littérature insiste donc sur la nécessité de...

Jaffe and Palmer (1997) present three distinct variants of the so-called Porter Hypothesis. The weak version of the hypothesis posits that environmental regulation will stimulate certain kinds of environmental innovations. The narrow version of the hypothesis asserts that flexible environmental...

The conventional wisdom about environmental protection is that it comes at an additional cost on farmers imposed by the government, which may erode their global competitiveness. However, during the last decade, this paradigm has been challenged by a number of analysts. In particular, Porter...