We are interested in mechanisms that maximize the final social welfare. In [1] this problem was studied for multiunit auctions with unit demand bidders and for the public project problem, and in each case social welfare undominated mechanisms in the class of feasible and incentive compatible...

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) constitute a generic and expressive framework for multiagent planning under uncertainty. However, planning optimally is difficult because solutions map local observation histories to actions, and the number of such...

Fraud and misconduct in the financial market became in the recent years a key issue of regulation in the context of financial crisis. The paper investigates the French financial supervisor (Autorité des marchés financiers) sanctions policy and practices. It argues that the Autorité des...

The paper offers an empirical analysis of the effects of sanctions decided by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) on the reputation of firms in France. Using an event study, we intend to show the impact of three events on the stock prices: opening of an investigation by the AMF; issuance of a...

The experience of the war economy during the First World War in the United States reinforced the influence of arguments in favour of managed competition. By extending the principles of scientific management to the economy as a whole, this approach aimed to coordinate firms through the exchange...