Search and Research: The influence of editorial boards on journals' quality (2009)
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao, Huynh, Kim
This paper considers the search for the best papers by the editors of an academic journal. Editors' search is sequential. At each period, each editor receives one submission from a researcher and has...
Search and Research: The influence of editorial boards on journals' quality (2009)
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao, Huynh, Kim
This paper considers the search for the best papers by the editors of an academic journal. Editors' search is sequential. At each period, each editor receives one submission from a researcher and has...
Children's first names and immigration background in France (2009)
Arai, Mahmood, Besancenot, Damien, Huynh, Kim, Skalli, Ali
We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority...
Congestion in academic journals under an impartial selection process (2009)
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao, Huynh, Kim
This paper studies the publishing game played by researchers and editors when the editors adopt an impartial selection process. It analyzes the possibility of congestion in the editorial process and...
Children's first names and immigration background in France (2009)
Arai, Mahmood, Besancenot, Damien, Huynh, Kim, Skalli, Ali
We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority...
Congestion in academic journals under an impartial selection process (2009)
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao, Huynh, Kim
This paper studies the publishing game played by researchers and editors when the editors adopt an impartial selection process. It analyzes the possibility of congestion in the editorial process and...
BANKS RISK RACE: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION (2009)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
Many observers argue that the abnormal accumulation of risk by banks has been one of the major causes of the 2007-2009 nancial turmoil. But what could have pushed banks to engage in such a risk...
BANKS RISK RACE: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION (2009)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
Many observers argue that the abnormal accumulation of risk by banks has been one of the major causes of the 2007-2009 nancial turmoil. But what could have pushed banks to engage in such a risk...
WHY BUSINESS SCHOOLS DO SO MUCH RESEARCH: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION (2008)
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao, Vranceanu, Radu
Criticism is mounting on business schools for their excessive focus on research and for neglecting teaching. We show that if students have imperfect information about a school's overall capabilities...
Multiple equilibria in a firing game with impartial justice (2008)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In many European countries, a majority of employees are hired under very protective labor contracts that restrict the ability of the employer to dismiss them. In particular, employees can take to...
WHY BUSINESS SCHOOLS DO SO MUCH RESEARCH: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION (2008)
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao, Vranceanu, Radu
Criticism is mounting on business schools for their excessive focus on research and for neglecting teaching. We show that if students have imperfect information about a school's overall capabilities...
Multiple equilibria in a firing game with impartial justice (2008)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In many European countries, a majority of employees are hired under very protective labor contracts that restrict the ability of the employer to dismiss them. In particular, employees can take to...
MIGRATORY POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: HOW TO BRING BEST PEOPLE BACK? (2008)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
This paper analyzes the decision of a migrant to return or stay within the framework of a signaling model with exogenous migratory costs. If employers have only imperfect information about the type...
MIGRATORY POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: HOW TO BRING BEST PEOPLE BACK? (2008)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
This paper analyzes the decision of a migrant to return or stay within the framework of a signaling model with exogenous migratory costs. If employers have only imperfect information about the type...
UNE ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE DES POLITIQUES D'’INCITATIONA LA PUBLICATION (2007)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
Cet article présente une formalisation élémentaire du "marché" des publications académiques dans un contexte d’information incomplète sur la qualité des contributions de chaque auteur....
UNE ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE DES POLITIQUES D'’INCITATIONA LA PUBLICATION (2007)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
Cet article présente une formalisation élémentaire du "marché" des publications académiques dans un contexte d’information incomplète sur la qualité des contributions de chaque auteur....
Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing? (2006)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon,...
Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing? (2006)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon,...
Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing? (2006)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon,...
Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing? (2006)
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon,...
Thesis (doctoral)--Université de droit, d'économie et de sciences sociales de Paris, 1988.
Mémoire DEA : Monnaie, finance, banque / Paris 2 ; 1986 : sess. fév.
Socially Efficient Managerial Dishonesty
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
As a reaction to the corporate scandals of the early 2000s, the US Administration dramatically tightened sanctions against managers who disclose misleading financial information. This paper argues...
Can Incentives for Research Harm Research? A Business Schools Tale
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
The paper develops a simple model of the market for academic publications in business and economics. The supply of papers is presented as the outcome of a game between researchers and schools’...
EUROPEAN DEFENCE FIRMS: THE INFORMATION BARRIER ON PRIVATE FINANCE*
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, European governments adopted a hands-off policy towards the defence industrial base, in an attempt to increase the sector’s efficiency and...
Pays de l'Est : le cout d’une candidature a l'Union europeenne monetaire
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu, Thierry Warin
Pour de nombreux pays d’Europe centrale et orientale la monnaie europeenne n’est pas seulement une nouvelle devise de reference. A plus ou moins longue echeance, elle represente leur future...
Credibility costs in the monetary integration game
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
Euro candidates are expected to maintain the value of their currency within the fluctuation band of the new exchange rate mechanism for at least two years. This paper highlights some unpleasant...
Why Business Schools Do So Much Research: A Signaling Explanation
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao Ricardo, Vranceanu, Radu
Criticism is mounting on business schools for their excessive focus on research and for neglecting teaching. We show that if students have imperfect information about a school’s overall...
Financial Instability under Floating Exchange Rates
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
At the end of the nineties, many developing countries featured an open capital market and relied heavily on dollar-debt financing of their economy. This paper analyses whether, in this context, clean...
Excessive Liability Dollarization in a Simple Signaling Model
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
If a dollar denominated external debt comes with so many risks, why do emerging economies allow for such an imbalance to accumulate ? The explanation provided in this paper builds on a simple...
Multiple Equilibria in a Firing Game With Impartial Justice
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In many European countries, a majority of employees are hired under very protective labor contracts that restrict the ability of the employer to dismiss them. In particular, employees can take to...
The Information Limit to Honest Managerial Behavior
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In the last years of the Internet bubble, many managers provided fraudulent financial statements with the aim at inflating the market value of their firms. Is this shortage of honesty an accident or...
Financial Instability under a Flexible Exchange Rate
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
Many governments in developing countries contemplate the possibility of increasing the flexibility of their exchange rates despite having accumulated substantial dollar-denominated debt. Using a...
Le financement public du secteur de la défense, une source d'inefficacité
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
Continental European countries used to finance defence firms with public money. In the last few years, many governments aimed at implementing a hands-off policy towards the defence sector, which...
The "Read or Write" Dilemma in Academic Production: A European Perspective
Besancenot, Damien, Huynh, Kim, Vranceanu, Radu
This paper investigates the production of research in business and economics. A scholar's income is positively related to the quantity and quality of research. In turn, the quality of a paper depends...
Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon,...
Dollar Debt in Developing Countries: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
In the early 2000s, many developing countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia presented substantial corporate dollar debts. This paper suggests an explanation for this worrisome phenomenon,...
Can incentives for research harm research? A business schools' tale
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
This paper develops a simple model of the market for academic publications in business and economics. The supply of papers is presented as the outcome of a game between researchers and schools' deans...
UNE ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE DES POLITIQUES D'INCITATIONA LA PUBLICATION
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
Cet article présente une formalisation élémentaire du "marché" des publications académiques dans uncontexte dinformation incomplète sur la qualité des contributions de chaque auteur....
Multiple equilibria in a firing game with impartial justice
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
In many European countries, a majority of employees are hired under very protective labor contracts thatrestrict the ability of the employer to dismiss them. In particular, employees can take to...
WHY BUSINESS SCHOOLS DO SO MUCH RESEARCH: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION
Damien Besancenot, Joao Faria, Radu Vranceanu
Criticism is mounting on business schools for their excessive focus on research and for neglecting teaching. We show that if students have imperfect information about a school's overall capabilities...
UNE ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE DES POLITIQUES D'INCITATIONA LA PUBLICATION
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
Cet article présente une formalisation élémentaire du "marché" des publications académiques dans uncontexte dinformation incomplète sur la qualité des contributions de chaque auteur....
Multiple equilibria in a firing game with impartial justice
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
In many European countries, a majority of employees are hired under very protective labor contracts thatrestrict the ability of the employer to dismiss them. In particular, employees can take to...
WHY BUSINESS SCHOOLS DO SO MUCH RESEARCH: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION
Damien Besancenot, Joao Faria, Radu Vranceanu
Criticism is mounting on business schools for their excessive focus on research and for neglecting teaching. We show that if students have imperfect information about a school's overall capabilities...
MIGRATORY POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: HOW TO BRING BEST PEOPLE BACK?
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
This paper analyzes the decision of a migrant to return or stay within the framework of a signaling model withexogenous migratory costs. If employers have only imperfect information about the type of...
Financial distress and banks' communication policy in crisis times
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
This short paper analyzes banks' communication policies in crisis times and the role of imperfect information in enhancing banks' distress. If banks differ in their exposure to risky assets, fragile...
Migratory policy in developing countries: how to bring best people back?
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
This paper analyzes the decision of a migrant to return or stay within the framework of a signaling model with exogenous migratory costs. If employers have only imperfect information about the type...
Strategic managerial dishonesty and financial distress
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
This paper analyzes the effect of stricter sanctions against fraudulent disclosure in an economy where commercial lenders have only an imperfect information about the type of the firm they trade...
Children's First Names and Immigration Background in France
Arai, Mahmood, Besancenot, Damien, Huynh, Kim, Skalli, Ali
We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority...
Children's First Names and Immigration Background in France
Arai, Mahmood, Besancenot, Damien, Huynh, Kim, Skalli, Ali
We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority...
Children's first names and immigration background in France
Mahmood Arai, Damien Besancenot, Kim Huynh, Ali Skalli
We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority...
Congestion in academic journals under an impartial selection process
Damien Besancenot, Joao Faria, Kim Huynh
This paper studies the publishing game played by researchers and editors when the editors adopt an impartial selection process. It analyzes the possibility of congestion in the editorial process and...
Search and Research: The influence of editorial boards on journals' quality
Damien Besancenot, Joao Faria, Kim Huynh
This paper considers the search for the best papers by the editors of an academic journal. Editors' search is sequential. At each period, each editor receives one submission from a researcher and has...
Multiple equilibria in a firing game with impartial justice
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
In this paper, we argue that firms' firing strategies and the judicial strategy of dismissed employees depend to a large extent on labor judges' ability to shed light on the various cases. The model...
Why business schools do so much research: A signaling explanation
Besancenot, Damien, Faria, Joao Ricardo, Vranceanu, Radu
Criticism is mounting on business schools for their excessive focus on research and the relative neglect of teaching quality. This paper shows that if students have imperfect information about...
BANKS RISK RACE: A SIGNALING EXPLANATION
Damien Besancenot, Radu Vranceanu
Many observers argue that the abnormal accumulation of risk by banks has been one of the major causes of the 2007-2009 nancial turmoil. But what could have pushed banks to engage in such a risk...
Banks’ risk race: a signaling explanation
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
Many observers argue that the abnormal accumulation of risk by banks has been one of the major causes of the 2007-2009 financial turmoil. But what could have pushed banks to engage in such a risk...