Contentious Contracts

This paper offers an explanation of rationally contracts where incompeteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante efficient.

L'obligation de non-concurrence dans les sociétés de professionnels : vers une théorie de liberté de choix contractuelle

"Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître en droit (LL.M.)"

Estabilización de nanotubos de carbono de pared simple en agua y en solventes orgánicos a partir de la funcionalización con sales de aril diazonio.

Tesis (Doctorado en Ingeniería Física Industrial) UANL, 2013.

A model of dynamic liquidity contracts

I study long-term financial contracts between lenders and borrowers in the absence of perfect enforceability and when both parties are credit constrained. Borrowers repeatedly have projects to undertake and need external financing. Lenders can commit to contractual agreements whereas borrowers can renege any period. I show that equilibrium contracts feature interesting dynamics: the economy exhibits efficient investment cycles; absence of perfect enforcement and shortage of capital skew the cycles toward states of liquidity drought; credit is rationed if either the lender has too little capital or if the borrower has too little collateral. This paper's technical contribution is its demonstration of the existence and characterization of financial contracts that are solutions to a non-convex dynamic programming problem.

The reform of electronic consumer contracts in Europe: towards an effective legal framework?

Christine Riefa is a lecturer in Consumer Law and Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University in the UK. She is an elected board member of the International Association of Consumer Law and an academic correspondent to the Euro-American Chair for the legal protection of consumers (University of Cantabria, Spain). In 2009-2010, Dr Riefa is a Fulbright EU Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Ohio USA. A first version of this article was presented at the Summer School in Consumer Law, organised by the GREDICC (Groupe de recherche en droit international et comparé de la consummation), UQAM, Montréal, 29th June – 4th July 2009.

Aux “marges sales” de la parole vive : les débats sur la langue dans le milieu théâtral québécois (1930-1968)

Des débats et interventions diverses sur les rapports entre langue et théâtre au Québec, on ne retient souvent que les polémiques ayant entouré, entre 1968 et 1973, la création des premières pièces de Michel Tremblay ainsi que les innombrables prises de position publiques de leur auteur. Dans une perspective sociohistorique, cet article cherche à montrer que — à partir des années 1930, tout particulièrement — une réflexion originale sur la langue au théâtre prend naissance dans un contexte où la critique tente de penser l’autonomie d’un théâtre québécois en émergence. D’où une vive attention à la façon de porter la parole vivante au théâtre (élocution, débit, accent), qu’il s’agit de faire échapper à l’influence de l’art oratoire et de l’éloquence profane ou sacrée. L’importance de la notion centrale de l’époque, le naturel à la scène, se manifeste ensuite sous d’autres formes, notamment à travers la promotion d’un théâtre réaliste, puis social. La dramaturgie et les positions de Marcel Dubé sur la question linguistique, affirmées dès les années 1950, sont exemplaires de cette évolution générale, qui s’inscrit en faux contre une perspective textualiste évacuant de l’oeuvre de théâtre la parole quotidienne, dans toute son imperfection et sa fragilité.

Intelligent Use of Emotions in Personal Selling: A Study into the Effect of Emotional Intelligence on the Performance of Sales Executives

School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology

The Effect of Sales Promotion on Consumer Based Brand Equity

The study was an attempt to find out the effect of Sales Promotion,Price and Premium Promotion,on Consumer Based Brand Equity.The dimensions of consumer Based Brand Equity under study were Brand Awareness and Associations,Perceived Quality and Brand Loyalty.The Product categories under study were Convenience Products,shopping Products and Specialty Products and the product classes taken were Toothpastes,Colour Television and Athletic Shoes.The brands under study were Convenience Products-Anchor,Closeup,Colgate and Dabur:Shopping products-LG,Onida,Samsung and Sony and Specialty Products-Action,Adidas,Nike and Reebok.The primary objective of the study was to examine the effect of Sales Promotion,Price and Premium Promotion,on Consumer Based Brand Equity(CBBE)