We extend the persuasion game to bring it squarely into the economics of advertising. We model advertising as exciting consumer interest into learning more about the product, and determine a firm's equilibrium choice of advertising content over quality information, price information, and...

After introducing a definition of knowledge, we explain causes the emergence of knowledge based problems in firms. We structure this field through two dimensions : - material base nature of knowledge : human or formal - levels of knowledge management : creation, capitalization and transfert....

The article aims at providing an original contribution to the economic assessment of labour law issue. It is based on a theoretical framework shared by economists and jurists which unable an assessment of employment protection legislation in a dynamic perspective focusing on implementation of...

La dégradation du marché du travail, importante en Europe, plus récente aux Etats-Unis, n’est ni purement conjoncturelle, ni propre aux seules économies développées. Des mouvements contrastés affectent au Nord comme au Sud les salaires et les emplois, en nombre et en qualité. Les...

The article offers a discussion of employment protection indicators, based of an original framework scarcely used in the current literature: starting from the notion of functional equivalent provided by comparative lawyers, we analyze dismissal law in several countries through the lens of...