This paper has described two broad systems of corporate governance existing in Continental Europe and in the UK.

We start this paper by an introduction to evolutionary algorithms and to their biological background. We present a survey of the most important evolutionary schemes found in the literature. We then describe niche search, a genetic-based optimisation approach that we have designed and implemented.

In this paper I consider social choices under uncertainty. I prove that any social choice rule that satisfies independence of irrelevant alternatives, translation invariance, and weak anonymity is consistent with ex post Bayesian utilitarianism.

In the problems of choosing "aspirations" for coalitional games,we study two axioms, "MW-consistency" and "converse MW-consistency ", introduced by Moldovanu and Winter (1994). We mainly consider two domains: thedomain of all NTU games and the domain of all TU games.

Recent developments in the econometric estimation of multi-output, multi-inp ut distance functions have provided a promising new solution to the single-output restriction implicit in the standard production function. However, a suspicion that regressor endogeneity may introduce possible sim...