The article studies the conceptions of causality encountered in macroeconometrics. From an empiricist standpoint, it is natural to privilege measurements of phenomenal associations, spread over a period of time, between series of data. This method has made a major comeback since the 1970s,...

Knowledge is increasingly playing a key role in achieving organizational success in modern organizations notably in leveraging core business competencies, accelerating innovation and time to market, improving cycle times and decision making, strengthening organizational commitment, and building...

We investigate the capital structure dynamics of a panel of 766 firms from five Western Europe countries: France, Italy, UK, Germany and Switzerland over the period 1996-2007. If firms adjust their capital structure towards an optimal level with adjustment costs affecting this optimization...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the state of the quantity theory in the United States prior to the publication of Irving Fisher’s The Purchasing Power of Money in 1911. We start by presenting the participants in the monetary debate. Next, we analyze the controversies regarding prices,...

Accounting for intangible assets is the object of an intense debate between advocates of increasing the mandatory requirements and partisans of the current voluntary disclosure system. We provide empirical evidence allowing to discriminate between these two competing cases. Examining disclosure...

This article is a review of different researches in the field of what is known as perceived risk in consumer psychology. The concept of perceived risk and its measurement methods are first examined. Three sets of antecedents arc then presented: individual factors, product and situation-related...