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...

Both Poe and Dupin, the detective character created by Poe, think like game theorists. The goal of this paper is to prove this conjecture. First, we show that each one of the three Dupin stories is filled with ratiocination that can be modeled according to game theory. Second, we briefly...

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...

In Rome, on 16 March 1978, the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro. They kept him a prisoner for 55 days, and ultimately killed him. Why did they decide to kill Moro since it appears a posteriori that they did not improve their situation by doing so? Our paper answers this question by building...

[eng] Galiani and the apologue : a bicentennial article . . Galiani's seminal contribution to theoretical and applied economies uses the apologue as a teaching and leaming process. The Delia Moneta includes an original theory of value and equilibrium that is easy of access thanks to rigorous...

[eng] Experimental methods, economics and game theory : "nunc est bibendum ". This paper aims at answering a question about the development of experimental economics : Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando ?. It offers a brief historical account of the emergence of an...