This paper develops a Cournot duopoly in which a domestic firm competes with a technologically more advanced foreign-owned firm on the home market.

Sous des conditions bien connues, les gains d'arbitrage du commerce peuvent etre obtenus soit par le commerce des biens (en l'absence de mobilite des facteurs), soit par la mobilite internationale des facteurs (en l'absence de commerce de biens. Il en decoule que les residents d'un pays...

Severe natural catastrophes in the early nineties have brought about a lack of financial capacity in the catastrophe line of the global reinsurance market. The finance industry reacted to this situation by issuing innovative products designed to spread the excess risk more widely among...

This paper examines the socio-economic status of the members of Switzerland's third language community - and hence its second largest linguistic community. Our goal is to check if a minority status in a demolinguistic sense is associated, in the case of Italian-speakers, with a divergence from...

Earnings reported by North American firms are conditioned by specific contextual factors that enhance their contractual and value relevances: regulatory oversight by securities commissions, relatively strict accounting and auditing standards, an extensive financial analysis industry and active...

In this paper constant quality price indices are constructed for three categories of real estate in Geneva: Apartment building, vacant land and condominiums. We use both hedonic and repeat sales models to estimate the rate of price change on these three submarkets.

The following paper deals with resistance to radical organisational change and different ways to explain this phenomenon. Our goal is to show in which way a theoretical perspective concentrating on power, routines and individual rationality can contribute to a better understanding of resistance.

Nous etablissons la notion de distance monotone entre un ensemble de variables et une variable opposee a cet ensemble. Cela permet de formaliser le lien entre deux proprietes, la coherence et la stabilite d'unsous-modele de regression et finalement d'etablir un critere de choix de modele base...