Le colloque « Transmission de l’entreprise à titre gratuit : quelle sécurité fiscale ? », organisé en juin 2003 par l’IDEFS (Université de Paris Dauphine), l’ASMEP et la Semaine juridique, sur le thème de l’évaluation des entreprises non cotées, a eu pour objet de confronter la...

Selon le principe de la muraille de Chine, les activités de gestion doivent pouvoir s’organiser de manière totalement indépendante des activités du dépositaire. En pratique, le principe de cloisonnement entre les activités du dépositaire et celles de la SGP peut apparaître comme une...

We consider a setting in which two potential buyers, one with a prior toehold and one without, compete in a takeover modeled as an ascending auction with participating costs. The toeholder is more aggressive during the takeover process because she is also a seller of her own shares. The...

Cette étude s'est intéressée aux pratiques des groupes français en matière de reconnaissance comptable des éléments incorporels acquis lors de regroupements d'entreprises et à l'impact de celles-ci sur le marché financier. La démarche de validation empirique a porté sur un...

Given the importance of governance systems in companies and to all its partners, collective responsibility of the different governance devices has been highlighted. The role of the Board which can be viewed as a body of supreme control remains highly controversial in the in different...

Are mergers and acquisitions significant events that develop informativeness? Is the informativeness process the same in different countries? Looking only at cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) is insufficient and the results are sometimes contradictory. To answer to these questions we use the...

In this paper, we examine how categorization is resisted. We analyze the way organizations draw on industry registers to resist or adapt to changes that will potentially alter the definition and nature of the markets in which they compete. We approach this question through a qualitative study of...

The analyses of the tender offer premiums and of the means of payment should not be performed separately. In the empirical literature, these two variables are often considered independently, although they may have an endogenous relationship in a contractual setting. Using a sample of European...