This paper attempts to give an integrated view of the numerous contributions to economic theory of information. After an introduction where the economics of information is placed within the context of general economic theory and defined relative to the Arrow-Debreu contingent market model, the...

In this paper, we survey the asset pricing models that have been used in the context of emerging markets. We emphasize that both returns and their variability are more predictable than in developed markets and investigate whether this predictability can be explained by predictable measures or...

This paper studies the impact of financial market structure on investment decisions by firms using company panel data from six countries: Germany and Japan, where borrower-lender relationships are more of a long-term nature, Canada, France, United Kingdom, and United States, where financial...

This article studies the potential links between the value of collateral and the investment decisions made by firms. We show that the use of collateral is an endogenous response to the presence of asymmetric information in financial markets. We then show that permanent shocks to the value of...

In this article, we study the convergence of a sequence of strategic equilibria in a model with a hierarchy of leaders and followers and where firms express their strategy in terms of both prices and quantity. In the duopoly case with an homogenous product, such a strategy set leads to...

The objectif of this paper is to give a microeconomic foundation to misleading advertising in order to derive a method to evaluate its social costs both in terms of efficiency and in terms of distribution. We develop first the approach leading to the concept of demand based on information biased...

In this paper, we present an economic analysis of road safety emphasizing market failures due to externalities and moral hazard. We also examine governmental actions such as taxes and subsidies and regulation which may reduce inefficiencies. Dans cet article nous présentons une analyse...

We want to test the ability of conditional and non-conditional CAPM models to explain the returns on emerging markets as a function of their integration with world markets. We use data on 16 developed markets and 10 emerging markets together with data on the Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE)...