[eng] Assessing Controversial Risks Using Real Options Theory . by Robert Kast, André Lapied, Sophie Pardo and Camelia Protopopescu . Public decision-making and risk assessment in such fields as environmental risk, industrial risk, disaster insurance, and health and unemployment insurance...

This paper investigates spatial variations in product prices using an exhaustive micro dataset on fish transactions. The data record all transactions between vessels and wholesalers that occur on local fish markets in France during the year 2007. Spatial disparities in fish prices are sizable,...

The marketing of fresh fish in Kribi, Cameroon, faces many uncertainties and implies the use of specific assets. In this chain, actors build hybrid coordination mechanisms, with contractual arrangements which rely heavily on trust. The recent implementation of an organized market, which was...

The introduction of farmed salmon on the European fish markets has coincided with major organisational changes within the value chain. The present paper investigates the extent to which the value spread between the intermediaries has been modified thereafter not only for salmon but also for a...

Fish markets can be expanded by two means, first by attracting newcomers in a local trading room and secondly by allowing remote bidders to participate. In both cases, electronic systems have played a key role in French primary fish markets. The computerisation of trading rooms started in the...

Exploiting variability in the managerial dimension, this paper presents firm management through firm and time effects in a production function that uses a three-way fixed effect model and a unique panel dataset that tracks multiple managers for each firm from 1980--2007. We allow for...