Le thème central de cet ouvrage porte sur l'adéquation des représentations théoriques du comportement décisionnel des agents et sur ses implications pour la pertinence des mesures de la juste valeur des instruments financiers. L'ouvrage vise en premier lieu à mettre en perspective le rôle...

This paper extends and applies principal-agent theory to the performance of donor projects. There is variation in the degree of divergence between the interests of the donor (the principal) and the recipient government (the agent). Further, the effort expended on observation of the agent is a...

This paper investigates the impact of chronic diseases on insurance contracts with adverse selection. We use a bi-dimensional utility function (wealth and health status). We prove that the introduction of chronic diseases influences the equilibrium of insurance market. We characterize conditions...

This article is devoted to adverse selection problems in which individual private information is a whole utility function and cannot be reduced to some finite-dimensional parameter. In this case, incentive-compatibility conditions can be conveniently expressed using some abstract convexity...

Les départements d'Outre-mer (Dom) sont plus exposés aux risques naturels que la France métropolitaine. Pourtant, seuls 52 % des ménages des Dom ont souscrit pour leur résidence principale une assurance habitation, qui inclut obligatoirement la couverture des catastrophes naturelles, alors...