La littérature en psychologie distingue deux types de similarité : la similarité littérale et la similarité relationnelle. Or, les recherches sur l'extension de marque utilisent tantôt l'une, tantôt l'autre, souvent de manière peu explicite. Avant même de déterminer si la similarité...

Cet état de l'art distingue trois grands courants d'évaluation des sites Internet, selon qu'ils sont analysés comme un système d'information, comme un canal de communication ou comme un canal de distribution. Après en avoir exploré les limites et avantages respectifs, il propose une...

A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over three countries: France (Lyon, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Rennes), Switzerland (Geneva, Bern and Zurich) and Belgium (Brussels), based on individual travel survey data collected...

Cette communication a pour ambition de définir le concept de congruence, en particulier par rapport à ceux de similarité littérale et relationnelle ainsi que de fit. Nous proposons en particulier que la congruence soit un type de relation d'équivalence moins stricte que la similarité et...

The Basel II committee set up directives encouraging banks to use internal scores in order to assess the risk of their customers. This new form of information competes with the existing ones. SMEs are most concerned by these new stakes, due to the lack of transparency. The aim of this paper is...

We compare the performance of various hedging strategies for index collateralized debt obligation (CDO) tranches across a variety of models and hedging methods during the recent credit crisis. Our empirical analysis shows evidence for market incompleteness: a large proportion of risk in the CDO...

Banking firms exhibit unique business and financial dynamics that are priced in their stock returns. This paper compares traditional empirical asset pricing models on portfolio of banking firms from fourteen European countries and proposes a banking specific risk factor. We compared a single...

The paper assesses the implementation of income contingent loan schemes for higher education (ICL) in an institutional context characterized by two main features: (i) a former tuition free system and (ii) a great heterogeneity in tertiary education's diplomas quality and cost, which impacts the...

The development of various forms of public-private partnerships for the financing, building and operating of public infrastructure has not fundamentally altered the economic calculations involved. This chapter examines to what extent it is necessary, however, to change the way that government...

Cet article analyse quelles modalités de concurrence dans l'assurance santé peuvent améliorer l'efficience du système tout en satisfaisant à certains impératifs d'équité. L'analyse s'appuie sur des arguments théoriques et quelques expériences étrangères. La régulation des relations...