An online platform makes a profit by auctioning an advertising slot that appears whenever a consumer visits its website.  Several firms compete in the auction, and consumers differ in their preferences.  Prior to the auction, the platform gathers data which is statistically correlated with...

Competition authorities all over the world worry that integration between search engines (mainly Google) and publishers could lead to abuses of dominant position.  In particular, one concern is that of own-content bias, meaning that Google would bias its rankings in favor of the publishers it...

Search engines enable advertisers to target consumers based on the query they have entered.  In a framework with horizontal product differentiation, imperfect product information and in which consumers incur search costs, I study a game in which advertisers have to choose a price and a set of...

In many industries, consumers rely on recommendations by an intermediary when choosing between competing products. In this paper, we look at how the existence of contracts between firms and intermediaries affects the quality of the advice received by consumers, and firms' incentives to invest in...

De nombreuses recherches ont cherché à comprendre la dynamique de la socialisation ainsi qu'à en décrire les mécanismes. Toutefois, la construction de sens n'a été appréhendée que comme l'un des aspects de la socialisation, le plus souvent limité aux surprises et contrastes perçus...

Nous proposons ici un essai théorique, qui analyse le concept de socialisation organisationnelle sous l'angle du sensemaking. Nous montrons que les deux processus sous-jacents de la socialisation - apprentissage et intériorisation - peuvent être considérés comme des processus de...

Les études les plus récentes qui s'intéressent au commerce équitable montrent que ce système commercial connaît un processus de standardisation, dans lequel les producteurs du Sud sont de plus en plus contraints à respecter les exigences en termes de gouvernance et de responsabilité...

The goal of our research work is to show the effect of the presence of joint auditors (BIG4) and a few mechanisms of governance on the shareholders' confidence. We are trying to explore the relationship between its different variables in the French context during the period 2005-2010. The...

In this article,we use the recently developed nonlinear autoregressive distributedlags (NARDL) model to examine the pass-through of crude oil prices into gasoline and natural gas prices. Our approach allowsus to simultaneously test the short-and long-run nonlinearities through positive and...

Pour M. Allais, son travail sur les surplus était " l'aboutissement de plus de trente ans de réflexion sur la nature de l'évolution économique en termes réel ". Il estimait qu'il devait permettre de rapprocher l'économie de la 'frontière entre le possible et l'impossible. Allais trouvait...