This article examines the influence of equity ownership structure (stock market listing and identity of shareholders) on human resource management practices. The empirical analysis uses the 2004-2005 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (REPONSE survey), based on a sample of 2930 establishments...

This paper studies the optimal hedging policy of a risk-averse firm facing both price and quantity uncertainties. In an expected utility framework, prudence in the Kimball?s (1990) sense is shown to play a major role in the characterization of the optimal hedging policy. More surprising is the...

<titre traitementparticulier="non">Abstract</titre> When do exports lead to rents? And when are they shared with employees? This paper proposes a double empirical test that deals with this question, based on a mix of rent sharing theories and Cournot Oligopoly. We find that most of the OECD exporting activities are associated with some...