We are interested in mechanisms that maximize the final social welfare. In [1] this problem was studied for multiunit auctions with unit demand bidders and for the public project problem, and in each case social welfare undominated mechanisms in the class of feasible and incentive compatible...

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) constitute a generic and expressive framework for multiagent planning under uncertainty. However, planning optimally is difficult because solutions map local observation histories to actions, and the number of such...

[eng] Within a few years, the concept of proximity has emerged and has been given a central, linking role in a new range of contributions led at the frontier between industrial economics and spatial economics. The interest raised by the concept may however be overcome by its polysemous aspect....

Overseas production is frequently seen as a force inducing the decentralization of R&D. A complementary explanation can be provided if we admit that the acquisition of knowledge is one of the key factors behind the internationalization of R&D. Multinational firms which adopt such a...