We consider an industry where firms produce goods that have different quality levels but firms cannot differentiate themselves from rivals. In this situation, producing low-quality generates a negative externality on the whole industry. This is particularly true when consumers cannot identify...

Il s’agit dans cette contribution de mettre en perspective les implications de l’économie de la connaissance sur la firme tout en exposant quels sont les outils TIC que cette dernière met en œuvre en réponse. Il est fait appel dans cette recherche aussi bien aux écrits traitant des...

In this article, we propose the hypothesis that “the Learning society” is more a political slogan and prospect than a social reality (In France, as in most OECD countries, public investment in formal education and training has actually decreased since the OECD started talking about lifelong...

Cet essai tente de démontrer que paradoxalement, même si les nouvelles technologies favorisent la circulation des idées et de l'information, les inégalités se creusent toujours plus. Le capitalisme continue de profiter à une minorité provoquant un appauvrissement des connaissances.

Qu'est-ce que la prescription d'achat ? Malgré son intervention dans de nombreux secteurs d'activité, le concept de prescription d'achat reste peu abordé en marketing. Une étude qualitative menée auprès de prescripteurs et d'acheteurs permet de proposer une définition de la prescription...

L'innovation des entreprises passe depuis une période récente par de nouveaux canaux instaurés via Internet : les plateformes d'innovation. De telles structures d'intermédiation mettent en relation des entreprises en panne de solution pour leur R&D avec des internautes du monde entier...

In a theoretical model, we analyze the effects of various kinds of demand- and supply-side incentives in the context of a model in which patients and doctors must decide not only on an aggregate quantity of health services to use in treating various kinds of illness, but also have a choice...

A conjecture of Laffer, which had considerable influence on fiscal doctrine, is that tax revenues of a Leviathan state eventually decrease when the tax rate exceeds a threshold value. We conduct a real effort experiment, in which a worker is matched with a non-working partner, to elicit the...

The standard analysis of corporate governance is that shareholders vote in the ratios that firms choose, such as one-share-one-vote. But if the cost of unbundling and trading votes is sufficiently low, then shareholders vote in the ratios that they themselves choose. We document an active market...

This paper reports on an experimental study of the influence of asymmetric information and information spillovers on bargaining outcomes. It develops and tests Kuhn and Gu (1999) s model of learning in sequential wage negotiations, by means of two Ultimatum Bargaining Games with uncertainty on...