(sept 2014) 5 papers... in 5 minutes !
- Stability of marketable payoffs with long-term assets - Jean-Marc Bonnisseau and Achis Chery. The stability of financial markets is a crucial matter because it determines their economic efficiency and the capacity of agents to make predictions...
Short link: [http://bit.ly/ZWHOMm]
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- Persistent Differences in Mortality Patterns across Industrialized Countries - Hippolyte d’Albis, Jacques Esso and Héctor Pifarré i Arolas. A fundamental inequality among individuals concerns the length of their lives. For multiple reasons, from biological factors to economic and social reasons, not all
of which are identifiable, life expectancy is unequal within populations...
Short link: [http://bit.ly/ZB7WLT]............................
- Until Death Do Us Part?: The Economics of Short-Term Marriage Contracts - Stefania Marcassa and Grégory Ponthière. At the end of the 18th century, Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism and the Panopticon system posed questions about the possible social benefits of “short” marriage contracts...
Short link: [http://bit.ly/1D7ftkx] _
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- Certifiable Pre-Play Communication: Full Disclosure - Jeanne Hagenbach, Frédéric Koessler and Eduardo Perez-Richet. In what situations can strategically interdependent individuals gain information held by the others?...
Short link: [http://bit.ly/1vndreS]............................
- Floating a Lifeboat: the Banque de France and the Crisis of 1889 - Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur, Angelo Riva and Eugene White. The mission of lenders of last resort is to contain financial crises without encouraging further risk-taking. After 2008, the rescue of failing financial institutions was criticised on the grounds that it led to moral hazard...
Short link: [http://bit.ly/1w1P6bi]