This article shows how management consultant’s daily transgression practices favour semi-confidential information diffusion, which has the effect of improving managers’ strategic decision making. By their marginal transgressions (namely confidentiality rule breaking), consultants act as...

Efficient risk-sharing rules and equilibria between two agents with utilities in a class that contains the Rank Dependent Expected Util- ity (RDU) are fully characterized. Specific attention is given to the RDU. Call-spreads and contracts with mixed regimes are shown to be efficient....

When firms use alliance relationships, important decisions they must make concern: (1) How the alliance should develop in order to accomplish the parent firms’ objectives; (2) How they can manage relational risks in the alliance relationship. In order to find an answer to these problems,...

What determines equilibrium securitization levels, and should they be regulated? To address these questions we develop a model where originators can exert unobservable effort to increase asset quality, subsequently having private information regarding quality when selling ABS to rational...

Définition et spécificité des contrats et des marchés à terme de matières premières, des principaux marchés à terme de matières premières, des marchés d'options et la gestion du risque de prix, des marchés de gré à gré et la gestion du risque de prix.

Hayek draws the general lines of an analysis of economic knowledge in taking up two different directions. On the one hand he draws his attention on the knowledge used by the agents in the course of the economic process; on the other one he seeks for the theoretical knowledge required to explain...

Despite of its importance for the economy, stock ownership by households is poorly under- stood. Recent research has uncovered that expectations of stock market returns by individuals strongly correlate with stock ownership. This paper reports new Öndings from a survey that collected data on...

The paper surveys the main meeting points between economics and psychology. It shows that their meeting is closely connected to a re-examinations of the decision-making theory, for individual, as well as for, game situations. After recalling the key role of the emotions in decision-making, it...

We consider a class of law invariant utilities which contains the Rank Dependent Expected Utility (RDU) and the cumulative prospect theory (CPT). We show that the computation of demand for a contingent claim when utilities are within that class, although not as simple as in the Expected Utility...

The article determines which conflict resolution mechanisms are constructive and which are destructive, through analysing contractual agreements in European biotechnology enterprises. In the article, the term mechanism is used to refer to tools or the way in which conflicts are resolved....