<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"-->?This paper analyses the properties of sophisticated opaque booking systems, implemented by online travel agencies in conjunction, usually, with traditional transparent systems. We characterize the opaque products as opposed to traditional transparent products. We focus on the two particular...

The topic of this article is to suggest some lines of analysis of the transactional functions of the exchange market in the determination of relationships between national and international currencies. A brief review of the literature is devoted to the analysis of external trade in the framework...

Alternative currencies continue to develop all around the world, taking various forms (material or immaterial) and fulfill various functions. They are created in order to promote the local economy development and to fight against social exclusion. They are principally aimed to low income people...

[fre] Cet article expose la logique, les conditions de validité et d'application des accords monétaires ultrafixes. Les fondements analytiques des unions monétaires marqués par l'incidence des débats de la macroéconomie contemporaine sur l'évolution de l'approche en termes de zones...

In this paper, we investigate the distribution strategy of a software publisher. The user adoption context is characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good)and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during...

This paper explores the economic models associated to different mobile-payment systems. We first present the existing experiences and review the few economic literature on the subject. We then concentrate on the four economic models currently experimented around the world: the operator-centric...

Mihail Manoilescu was one of the main intellectual personalities of the interwar period in Romania. He was known as a politician and a central banker, but also as an economist. From the very beginning of his theoretical and practical career, or at least from the late 1920s till the end of his...

The paper reexamines and discusses the causes of the failure of the French economic missions to implement a sound monetary and financial system in Romania between 1928 and 1933. Banque de France Deputy Governor Charles Rist, also professor of Economics at La Sorbonne University, was the leading...