Dans ce papier, nous construisons un modèle de décision dans lequel le système de formation produit à la fois des compétences productives (capital humain) mais aussi de l'information sur la véritable productivité des individus (signal). Nous réévaluons dans ce nouveau cadre théorique,...

This research tries to understand audit committee’s working and effectiveness. It aims to open the audit committee black box by analyzing the interactions between participants. The approach is comprehensive, based on analysis of 59 interviews with attendees of 32 CAC 40 companies’ audit...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate some solutions to the pricing of contingent claims in incomplete markets. We first consider the stochastic targetintroduced by Soner and Touzi (2002) for the general super-replication problem, and extended by Bouchard, Elie and Touzi (2009) in order to...

In the Rothschild and Stiglitz model, assuming differences in risk aversions may lead to unusual equilibrium configurations like multiple equilibria, equilibrium positive profits, or random contracts. We characterize the various types of equilibria and give results on the determinants of the...

Due to the lack of binding accounting rules prior to World War I, published financial reports are hardly useful for stakeholders, at that time. In order to lessen this lack of reliability of financial information, a few banks, such as Crédit Lyonnais, put to use a system of financial statement...

In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and possibly income loss, but also reduce the number of consumption units in the household. Using data from Indonesia, it is shown that the economic costs related to the death of...