The purpose of the regulated halts on stock exchange markets is to spread the information on the market and to protect the interests of the small shareholders. The aim of this work is to empirically investigate the price limits on the French stock exchange market. We analyze the impact of such...

Private pension plans are now an important source of retirement income, especially in the United Kingdom and in the United States. They play an increasing role in the economy of most of the OECD countries. Therefore, we analyse the effect of pensions on private consumption. We focus on the...

A switching regression approach with imperfect sample separation information is used to determine convergence clubs. Regime classification allows one to determine which countries belong to the related convergence clubs. Initial per capita GDP does not provide a perfect sample separation...

The purpose of the regulated halts on stock exchange markets is to spread the information on the market and to protect the interests of the small shareholders. The aim of this work is to empirically investigate the trading halts on the French stock exchange market. We proceed to a detailed...

This book explains key financial concepts, mathematical tools and theories of mathematical finance. It is organized in four parts. The first brings together a number of results from discrete-time models. The second develops stochastic continuous-time models for the valuation of financial assets...

This paper analyses the regulation of ambulatory care and its impact on physicians'careers, using a representative panel of 6; 016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983 to 2004. The beginning of their activity is influenced by the regulated number of places in medical schools, named in...

We apply set valued analysis techniques in order to characterize the input-to-state dynamical stability (ISDS) property, a variant of the well known input-to-state stability (ISS) property. Using a suitable augmented differential inclusion we are able to characterize the epigraphs of minimal...

This article questions the importance of agricultural press for the majoritarian farmers’union, the FNSEA, dealing with the question of its representativeness. At first, the authors highlight a phased trend towards press concentration to the benefit of majority union. During challenging times,...