Trust is a crucial factor in e-commerce. However, consumers are less likely to trust unknown Web sites. This study explores how less-familiar e-commerce Web sites can use branding alliances and Web site quality to increase the likelihood of initial consumer trust. We use the associative network...

We characterize the competitive equilibrium on the credit market when borrowers can strategically default. We assume that the audit is subject of errors of the two types and that lenders cannot commit ex-ante. We determine the penalty, the loan rate, the audit and strategic default...

An organic label offers a market signal for producers of organic food products. In Western economies, the label has gained high recognition, but organic food still represents a small part of total food consumption, which raises questions about the label's efficacy. By considering organic labels...

La maîtrise du risque sanitaire des aliments fait partie intégrante de la stratégie des firmes agro-alimentaires. Ces entreprises mettent en place des dispositifs organisationnels aptes à générer une maîtrise efficiente des risques, à travers la conformation à des référentiels assez...

This paper studies the nonlinear adjustment between industrial production and carbon prices – coined as ‘the carbon-macroeconomy relationship’ – in the EU 27. We model carbon price returns and industrial production as nonlinear and state-dependent, with dynamics depending on the sign and...

The Ohlson model (OM) builds on the accounting-based residual income valuation (RIV) model for equity valuation then specifies a linear information model (LIM) for the time-series behavior of residual income. As a result, stock price is related through a simple linear formula to current book...

Econometrics has strongly evolved in recent years on both the methodological level as well as in terms of applications. This article presents the different econometric methods (time series econometrics, information panels, models of duration,...) and their applications for the enterprise: demand...

The aim of this study is to highlight the characteristics of corruption and non-academic behaviour in higher education. Using data series recorded at a representative student sample we emphasise causal relationships between certain components of corruption and aspects of academic behaviour in...