We analyze the privatization of highway firms, focusing both on the sale of the shares of these firms and the tenders organized by the highway firms for the maintenance of the highways network. If a public works firm buys shares of a highway firm, tenders become inefficient and the revenue of...

This paper studies alliances through a methodological device based on simulation. The model results, compared to the photographic industry evolution, allows to formalize its dynamics. Diversity appears as the essential engine of the adaptation, implying various strategies of alliances in term of...

Pourquoi le meilleur des apprentis ne parviendra-t-il jamais exactement au même niveau de maîtrise que son maître ? La question de l’application et du transfert des compétences est essentielle pour beaucoup d’organisations. Dans les organisations qualifiées de « professionnelles »,...

While the insurance demand is very well documented in other countries, French research in this area is scarce, mainly because of the difficulty to have access to detailed data. This PhD uses data provided by a major health insurance company. We first build a joint modelling for both insurance...

Bien qu'elle soit encore assez peu usitée, la notion de capital immatériel représente une source non négligeable de création de valeur au sein des réseaux bancaires.Trois composantes distinctes mais interconnectées entre elles, sont à l'origine de ce concept.

Recently a small and growing empirical literature has attempted to analyze the role that quality plays in our understanding of trade. In particular, the recent work of Khandelwal (2010) has brought the insights of structural IO models of demand to bear into trade data. Our work builds on this...

We study how the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China has affected the survival, average wage, employment and productivity of local firms. To identify the causal effect of minimum wage growth, we use firm-level data for more than 160,000 manufacturing firms active in 2003 and complement...