The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of heterogeneous beliefs in an otherwise standard competitive complete market economy. The construction of a consensus probability belief, as well as a consensus consumer, are shown to be valid modulo an aggregation bias, which takes the form of a...

This paper investigates the impact of innovative workplace practices including job rotation and quality standards on occupational safety and mental strain. It uses a unique French dataset drawn from the 1998 Working Conditions survey, which provides information on individual workers for the year...

Since the late 90s,, European industries of electricity and gas have been subject to a process of concentration at both horizontal and vertical levels. At first glance, this consolidation is quite natural since, on the one hand, the application of European directives to open to competition has...

L'analyse des risques pris par les dirigeants sociaux susceptibles d'avoir des conséquences pécuniaires personnelles sur le terrain civil (fautes de gestion ou non, faute détachable, société in bonis ou défaillante, risques pris au regard du domaine boursier...) suppose d'avoir recours aux...

We study an optimal investment problem under contagion risk in a financial model subject to multiple jumps and defaults. The global market information is formulated as progressive enlargement of a default-free Brownian filtration, and the dependence of default times is modelled by a conditional...

L'objet de ce papier est l'étude des déterminants de l'offre de riz des ménages agricoles malgaches à partir des enquêtes des Observatoires Ruraux de 1996. Plusieurs démarches sont envisagées. Tout d'abord, l'étude des déterminants du rendement du riz au niveau des parcelles permet de...

This paper examines open market stock repurchases in France. We find a positive average market reaction to the repurchase announcement. However, the magnitude of the price reaction is found to depend on a number of corporate governance structure measures. The positive aspects of the announcement...