The purpose of this survey is to show how self-enforcing labor contracts can enhance the performance of macroeconomic models. I expose some desirable features of these dynamic contracts regarding the duplication of puzzling macroeconomic facts relative to the dynamics and persistence of...

In this article we give a necessary and su±cient condition for a selfnormalized weak invariance principle, in the case of a strictly stationary Á-mixing sequence fXjgj¸1. This is obtained under the assumptions that the function L(x) = EX2 1 1fjX1·xg is slowly varying at 1 and the mixing...

In this paper we study strong approximations (invariance principles) of the sequential uniform and general Bahadur-Kiefer processes of long-range dependent sequences. We also investigate the strong and weak asymptotic behavior of the sequential Vervaat process, i.e., the integrated sequential...

In this paper, a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis is implemented for the project of Yueyang-Zhuzhou Oil Product Pipeline, considering all members of society as whole. We focus on the social welfare aspects of the project as well as the project's risk resistance capacity.

We revisit the well-known weekend anomaly (Gibbons and Hess, 1981; Harris, 1986; Smirlock and Straks, 1986; Connolly, 1989; Giovanis, 2010) using an established macroeconometric technique known as spectral analysis (Granger, 1964; Sargent, 1987). Our findings show that using regression analysis with dichotomous...

Ce document de travail pour objectif de montrer comment le gestionnaire engagé dans une décision courageuse régule ses émotions. À partir d’une recherche empirique réalisée auprès de gestionnaires ayant réalisé des projets de fusion d’entreprises, nous avons réalisé une...

Malgré le nombre grandissant de publications sur l’implémentation de la gestion de projet et sa valeur pour les organisations, il y a peu d’études de cas explorant la valeur de l’implémentation de la gestion de projet dans le contexte particulier des instituts de recherche. Cette...

This article is about the essence of managerial talent. It presents the case-study of Richard Branson, who is a talented project manager by all standards. The existing findings, which explain the essence of managerial talent, will be discussed. The Gallup organization’s study of more than...

Cet article traite le problème d’accélération de projets en mettant l’emphase sur le compromis durée/coût. En effet, l’accélération de projets demeure un des moyens privilégié par les gestionnaires pour satisfaire aux besoins des promoteurs et des clients lorsque les désirs de...

The concept of “project planning” is not uniformly understood. Some authors reduce it to scheduling – determining the dates for performing schedule activities and deadlines for reaching milestones. In this paper, as Nicholas and Steyn (2008) we assume that planning is a process that...