En intégrant la variable technologique, cet article décline les concepts d'" X Efficiency " et de " performance productive ". En recourant à l'axiomatique DEA, appliquée au secteur bancaire, les auteurs évaluent la productivité administrative de l'activité " Accueil guichet " de 42 agences.

Previous studies have documented that Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) could be a good tool to evaluate fund performance,especially the performance of hedge funds as it can incorporatemultiple risk-return attributes characterizing hedge fund's nonnormal return distribution in an unique performance...

The recursive formula for the value of the zero-sum repeated games with incomplete information on both sides is known for a long time. As it is explained in the paper, the usual proof of this formula is in a sense non constructive : it just claims that the players are unable to guarantee a...

We consider situations in which individuals would like to choose an action which is close to that of others, as well as close to a state of nature, with the ideal proximity to the state varying across agents. Before this coordination game is played, a cheap-talk communication stage is offered to...

Automated negotiation process seems to be a powerful mechanism to resolve disputes arising from Internet-based transactions. Automated negotiation is an online blind-bidding process in which an automated algorithm evaluates bids from the parties and settles the case if the offers are within a...

We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers, as an environmental policy instrument. Using a structural model of the interactions between firms, financial institutions, governments and courts we show, through numerical...

We study the consequences of dropping the perfect competition assumption in a standard infinite horizon model with infinitely-lived traders and real collateralized assets, together with one additional ingredient : information among players is asymmetric and monitoring is incomplete. The key...

La question du contrôle de gestion des services reste problématique. L'immatérialité de la prestation, l'absence de résultats immédiats, la relation personnelle entre le prestataire et le client, la coproduction par le client, sont autant de facteurs qui peuvent rendre les méthodes...

Cet article décrit, en recourrant aux approches DEA et aux frontières de production stochastisques, la mise en place d'un outil de benchmaking interne dans le secteur des services. Il permet également de valider l'utilisation de temps standards d'opérations lorsque la fonction de production...