We develop a game-theoretic model of doping which focuses on the economic aspects of competitive sports. According to the model, incentives for athletes to use doping increase when (i) the efficiency of the drug test system is low, (ii) the number of competitions during one season is high, (iii)...

This article argues that the antidoping policy faces a credibility problem very similar to that identified for the conduct of the monetary policy. Using a theoretical framework a la Barro-Gordon in which athletes form rational expectations about authorities' effort against doping, the author...

In this article, the author incorporates fair play norms into the analysis of the basic performance-enhancing drug game proposed in 2004 by Haugen (in the Journal of Sports Economics). In some cases, it leads to a modification in the very nature of the game, switching it from a prisoner's...

[eng] Banking equity participations in small firms' capital and real business cycles : a theoretical model. . This paper highlights different effects that banking equity participations in small firms'capital may have. In the model we propose, banking participations sti­mulate investment and...

[eng] Banking system efficiency, loan market structure and economic activity. . German and Japanese ("bank-oriented") financial systems are featured by the dominance of a small number of large banks. Despite the high concentration of the banking market, it is often argued that such financial...

Using a simple experimental approach on 126 French students, we test the assumption that students participating in sports activities have specific economic behavior. We find that sports practice intensifies the usual gender differences: athletic participation seems to render boys still more...