[fre] Les Accords Volontaires entre l’État et les entreprises sont utilisés par la puissance publique depuis au moins vingt ans. Or depuis quelques années, les firmes s’engagent de plus en plus à améliorer leur performance environnementale ou sociale de manière purement unilatérale....

We study the stockholder-manager relationship in a firm when an illicit strategy can be followed. We derive the optimal compensation offered by the firm and examine how it affects the ceo?s action. We then discuss the optimality of stock-options or free-stocks. Moreover, we analyze the link...

This paper reexamines the issue of relative versus joint incentive schemes in a multi-agent moral-hazard framework. The model allows a full analysis of the information and dependence structure. An important result is that the widespread notion that greater correlation in outcomes calls for more...

The paper analyzes the efficiency of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for waste management. We consider a vertically differentiated duopoly where endogenous market quality affects waste disposal costs. Each producer has to meet a take-back requirement that forces it to collect and treat...

In a Hotelling's duopoly with a general transportation cost function, we study competition through catalog: each firm chooses at the same time a price and a location. With simultaneous catalog offers, there is no equilibrium in pure strategies for high valuations of the consumers, while a...

Does self-regulation improve social welfare? We develop a policy game featuring a regulator and a firm that can unilaterally commit to better environmental or social behavior in order to preempt future public policy efforts. We show that the answer depends on the set of policy instruments...