We use a variant of the Hotelling (1929) model to illustrate that, when a firm faces hard payment constraint(s), financially strong rivals may adopt predatory strategies to drive the firm out of the product market and hence to obtain extra profit from enhanced market power later on. Predation is...

A közgazdaságtanban általában a cégekre olyan szereplőkként gondolunk, amelyek csak anonim piaci mechanizmuson keresztül érintkeznek egymással. Ezzel szemben a valóságban a cégek életében fontos szerepet játszanak a gazdaság más, konkrét szereplőivel meglévő kapcsolataik....

The multilateral financial institutions have been reformed in a largely ad hoc incremental way. Discussion of a new international financial architecture provides an opportunity to reassess their roles. Although private capital markets mobiliza huge amounts of finance globally, they also display...

This Paper surveys the theoretical literature on the effect of soft budget constraints (SBC) on economies in transition from centralization to capitalism; it also reviews our understanding of SBC in general. It focuses on the conception of the SBC syndrome as a commitment problem. We show that...

This paper endogenizes financial contagion and financial crises from financial institutions. We show that financial crises can emanate from financial institutions which generate soft-budget constraints (SBC). The prevailing SBC in an economy distort in-formation such that the interbank lending...

Notre premier propos, theorique, est d'elaborer une regle de classification en intrants et en extrants des differents arguments de la fonction de profit bancaire. Nous l'utilisons ensuite dans notre etude empirique de 38 banques francaises de reseau.

We study the efficiency of the equilibrium price in a centralized, order-driven market where many asymmetrically informed traders are active for many periods.

Ce texte rappelle les changements qui ont donne naissance au marketing relationel, ses implications en matiere d'organisation de la fonction marketing au sein des entreprises et les conditions devant etre satisfaites pour qu'il soit mis en pratique dans le secteur du private banking.

In the context of a costly-state-verification model with a risk-neutral agent having limited liability, it has been postulated that allowing stochastic auditing reduces the asymmetric information problem to a trivial one: i.e., the first best can be approached arbitrarily closely with feasible...

This paper examines the concept of hegemony and its historical impacts on the Arabic and Islamic countries. It is foreseen that has long path applied by the Western countries as disclosed by trade applications and history of economic thought. Impacts on Arabic and Islamic countries were visible...