The issue of Competitive Balance is a central issue in the literature on the economics of professional sports. The basic idea is that the managers of professional sports leagues must maintain a certain level of competitive balance in their league if they want it to remain attractive (Rottenberg...

We consider an oligopolistic industry including leveraged firms and unleveraged ones where firms are engaged in a sequential decision-making process. At the first stage of the game, a firm and her bank, considering the demand uncertainty and the distribution probability of the shock, evaluate a...

We consider firms perfectly symmetrical on production costs in the pre-merger game but the cost of the merged entity may be amended due to the anti-competitive effects of the merger. The lack of empirical precision concerning the effect of the merger on production costs (Scherer, 1980 or Tichy,...

This paper examines empirically the link between the post-entry strategies of new entrepreneurs and the duration of the firm. We use a sample of French entrepreneurs that have set up or taken over a firm during the first six months of 1994. For firms that are still alive at least four years...

In a sample of newly created French firms, the impact of an entrepreneurís education on the firm's survival varies widely depending on his previous labor market situation. While it is strongly positive for the overall population, it is much weaker or insignificant for entrepreneurs who were...

The decision to start up or to take over an enterprise is induced both by the social and personal situation of the individual and by an environment which is more or less favourable to entrepreneurship. In this environment, we identify several constraints such as financial, technical,...

In this paper, we use the certain benefit function of Luenberger, which is a generalization of the notion of distributable surplus by Allais, to characterize the classical notions of willingness to pay and willingness to accept. These concepts allow us to study the transfer of one or several...

Dans cet article, après avoir présenté les notions de bénéfice certain et d'équivalent certain de Luenberger (qui généralisent au cas du risque les notions de surplus distribuable et de surplus équivalent de Allais), nous en dérivons les identités classiques utilisées pour l'étude...

Dans cet article, nous étudions dans le cadre du modèle RDEU, d'une part la fourchette de liquidité, et, d'autre part la disparité entre le prix d'achat et le prix de vente d'une variable aléatoire. Les résultats que nous mettons en évidence ne diffèrent pas fondamentalement de ceux...

Dans cet article, après avoir présenté la notion de bénéfice certain de Luenberger (qui généralise au cas du risque la notion de surplus distribuable de Allais), nous en dérivons les identités classiques utilisées pour l'étude de la disparité prix de vente-prix d'achat. Nous montrons...