This article examines the use of covenants non to compete in employment contracts, clauses which raise the issue of firm intangible assets appropriation and the sharing of the rent with the employees. It relies on the recent theoretical developments that show how the law can ensure innovation...

This paper proposes a review of the book « Droit et Economie de la propriété intellectuelle » (Intellectual property law and economics) (edited by Frison-Roche and A. Abello, 2005) that gathers 17 contributions of lawyers and Economists. We present the main and strong argument of this...

"Institutions", as a set of pre-existing and objective resources of justification, is the milieu where economic agents can find materials to solve their coordination problems and/or their conflicts of reproduction. "Conventions" are collective representations of Hjustified common worlds" that...

This article provides an empirical assessment of payment schemes implemented in technology licensing agreements. We propose that differences in payment schemes reflect the ex ante measurement costs and the ex post contractual hazards existing in such agreements. We argue that such costs evolve...

The French OFER survey (2005), based on a sample of over 4,050 private establishments, allows analyzing the recruitment practices of firms, in particular the way they search and find applicants. The analysis framework proposes a distinction between having recourse to market intermediaries which...