The goal of this article is to understand the practices of the three main actors(bankrupt, trustee in bankruptcy,creditors) of the French failure after the law of 1838. We worked on 500 files of the Commercial Court of the department of Seine and more precisely on the accounting valuation. First...

Bankruptcy implies the involvement of legal procedure and a comprehensive examination of accounting. Yet the legislation, the function and the meaning of accounting have changed over the last centuries. To understand these changes, which have resulted in the judicialisation of procedures and the...

The purpose of this article is to study accounting valuation practices in French bankruptcies following enactment of the Law of 1838. The research is based on a study of 500 files in the archives of the Paris Court of Commerce. After first presenting the main steps in the bankruptcy proceedings,...

Probability weighting is one of the cornerstones of decision-making theories accommodating gambling preferences. This paper examines its relevance to explaining employee stock option exercise behavior. We characterized the optimal exercise policy for a representative employee with Rank-Dependent...

This research provides an alternative framework for the analysis of employee stock option exercise patterns. It develops a binomial model where the exercise decision obeys to a policy that maximizes the expected utility to a representative employee exhibiting preferences as described by the...

This research provides an alternative framework for the valuation of standard employee stock options and for the analysis of exercise behavior patterns. It develops a binomial model where the exercise decision obeys to a policy that maximizes the expected utility to a representative employee...

New value indicators are not used in the same way everywhere. In some cases, they are only used to provide financial information whereas in others, they are the basis for organising internal management. Sometimes they are merely used as financial analysis tools.