We study how managers respond to hurricane events when their firms are located in the neighborhood of the disaster area. We find that the sudden shock to the perceived liquidity risk leads managers to increase corporate cash holdings and to express more concerns about hurricane risk in...

This paper examines the use of game theory in educational sciences. It describes the evolution of game theory from the defining axioms of Von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1944 to the present. After the Introduction and this description, the third part presents the methodology used to select...

Economic simulation - as economic pattern simulation use - which is already a useful tool of searchers and managers, would be a tool of economic teacher. When teacher want explain economic theories, he can't do experiment, hence simulation would take place experiment. Simulation is an analytical...

Evaluation's way is set on a paradox. The feed-back of evaluation would imply - according to a wrong way - the evaluation of the examiner. Systemic Analysis could show the promises and the semantic limits of this technical. It seems to be impossible to measure work's human value through the...

National account (N.A.) is not a neutral technique. It depends on the state of the theoretical mechanism - macroeconomic and statistical one. When we teach N.A., we show these mechanisms through account’s tools (TEI, TEE, and so on.) with the available data. In France, especially in the high...

This study aims to analyze the relationships between foreign public aid, governance and terrorism in West Africa, exploring the economic, political and security implications. The results indicate that foreign aid has a positive influence on governance, regardless of the country's group...

The open letter from economic students to professors and others responsible for the teaching of this discipline has been published in Le Monde of June 17th, 2000. The text of this letter was signed by nearly a thousand students and dozens of teachers in just one month. Here is the beginning of...

Dans cet article nous allons envisager quelques dilemmes méthodologiques importants en ce qui concernent la théorie de la croissance économique et de l’économie. En particulier nous allons essayer trouver la réponse aux questions suivantes: qu’est-ce que c’est la croissance...

This article analyzes the university's role in the reconstruction of Haiti through an economic perspective. To rebuild themselves, Haitians need to be able to realize their dreams and meet their own needs, while fighting the behavioral bias created by the assistantship. By studying the...

Microfinance has made and continues to do a lot of debate. In these debates, an under-documented aspect is the impacts on recipients’ behavior. Through an empirical study on a sample of 500 beneficiaries of microfinance in Haiti, we mobilize the new theoretical framework of institutional...