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Excess control rights, bank capital structure adjustment and lending
We investigate whether excess control rights of ultimate owners in pyramids affect banks' adjustment to their target capital ratio. When ultimate control rights and... -
"Abnehmen schließt den Begriff von Aufhören nicht notwendig in sich ein" : Da...
In diesem Aufsatz geht es um die Beziehungen zwischen den zwei Autoren: J. Ch. Lichtenberg und Elias Canetti. Dabei wird gezeigt, inwiefern Elias Canetti das Vorbild... -
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
We review the findings in surveys and experiments from the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between... -
Large-time asymptotics of solutions to the Kramers-Fokker-Planck equation wit...
In this work, we use scattering method to study the Kramers-Fokker-Planck equation with a potential whose gradient tends to zero at the infinity. For short-range... -
Equitable Provision of Long-Term Public GoodsThe role of Negotiation Mandates
First draft: January 2001 This version: June 17, 2003 The authors are grateful to Roger Guesnerie, Tarik Tazdait, and the participants of a seminar on climate change economics... -
Supplementary material to: Back-pressure traffic signal control with unknown ...
This is the supplementary material to the paper: back-pressure traffic signal control with unknown routing rates. It details proofs not included in the paper due to... -
Compensated fragmentation processes and limits of dilated fragmentations
A new class of fragmentation-type random processes is introduced, in which, roughly speaking, the accumulation of small dislocations which would instantaneously... -
Optimization of the marketing mix in the health care industry
This paper proposes data mining techniques to model the return on investment from various types of promotional spending to market a drug and then uses the model to... -
The Total War of Paris Mathematicians
From 1914 to 1918, Paris mathematicians were highly mobilized for war. In this paper, we argue that the wartime experience of Parisian mathematicians was total, in... -
Imputing unknown competitor marketing activity with a Hidden Markov Chain
We demonstrate on a case study with two competing products at a bank how one can use a Hidden Markov Chain (HMC) to estimate missing information on a competitor's... -
Kac's chaos and Kac's program
In this note I present the main results about the quantitative and qualitative propagation of chaos for the Boltzmann-Kac system obtained in collaboration with... -
VTC & PHV, une étude comparative de la manière dont les Anglais régulent l'of...
La libre interaction de l'offre et de la demande ne permet pas de réguler le marché du transport particulier de personnes que l'on hèle dans la rue. C'est pourquoi,... -
Sémantique textuelle et TAL : un exemple d'application à l'analyse des sentim...
Article à paraître en septembre 2014 dans DOCUMENTS, TEXTES, ŒUVRES. Perspectives sémiotiques (Driss ABLALI, Sémir BADIR, Dominique DUCARD, éd.), Presses Universitaires de Rennes. -
Geodesics on Shape Spaces with Bounded Variation and Sobolev Metrics
This paper studies the space of $BV^2$ planar curves endowed with the $BV^2$ Finsler metric over its tangent space of displacement vector fields. Such a space is of... -
Geometric simple connectivity and finitely presented groups
This is the second of a Series of three papers, the first one published in Geom Dedicata 167 p. 91-121 (2013), proving that all finitely presented groups are QSF. -
La gestion du fait religieux au sein de l'institution médicale. Perspective h...
Préface de Jean Baubérot, Président d'honneur de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Titulaire de la chaire "Histoire et Sociologie de la laïcité", à l'EPHE. -
Some Properties of Inclusions of Multisets and Contractive Boolean Operators
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On the Range of Admissible Term-Structures
In this paper, we analyze the diversity of term structure functions (e.g., yield curves, swap curves, credit curves) constructed in a process which complies with some...
