The management of a company must fulfill at least two essential conditions in order to achieve the goal of maximizing the market value of the company: efficiently using the existent resources and the opportunity of increasing or decreasing the capital stock. The second condition implies a...

The St.~Petersburg Paradox is a famous economic and philosophical puzzle that has generated numerous conflicting explanations. To shed empirical light on this phenomenon, we examined subjects' bids for one St.~Petersburg gamble with a real monetary payment. We found that bids were typically...

In a crediting relationship, one of the parties involved – namely the creditor – is exposed to certain risks which impose taking measures to guarantee a debt. If, at the due date, the debtor cannot pay his/her debts and meet the assumed liabilities, the creditor can execute the legally...