Present French bankruptcy law is composed of extra-judicial (prevention and mediation) treatment of firms? difficulties and judicial treatment (bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation) of their failures. In the first part, mediation belongs to non-cooperative game theory and to economics of...

According to Merton [1957], the history of science is punctuated by disputes over priority of discovery, but there are no such priority fights in economics. Hands [2006] explains this phenomenon by assuming that economists have no sense of collective moral outrage. We provide a counterexample to...

Numerous papers show how game theory can improve our understanding of literature. There is no paper, however, using experimental economics to arrive at a new understanding of a play. We fill this gap by using experimental evidence to compare the last two versions of Molière's Tartuffe. In the...