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AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude toward my advisor Richard de Neufville for his guidance andsupport; his advice was very valuable to lead me through the <strong>of</strong>ten-complex process <strong>of</strong> drafting andcompleting a thesis. I am very grateful too for his faith in my capacity for completing the TPP master inone year.I would also like to thank the research group on “<strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> Response to Global Terrorism” at theCenter for Transportation and Logistics, led by Yossi Sheffi, which financially supported my work andmade my studies at MIT possible. This group constituted a friendly and intellectually stimulatingenvironment. A special thanks to Jim Rice and Federico Caniato who were always ready to help me.This work was also made possible thanks to Carole Joppin who continuously helped me with her insightsand with whom I had very interesting discussions on real options.I am deeply grateful to the French-American Commission that gave me the Fulbright fellowship. Thisconstituted a valuable financial help, but above all it allowed me to have the greatest exchanges I had thisyear with several students from all over the world.My year at MIT would not have been the same without my friends. I would like to thank AlexandreCosquer for being so helpful in many fields <strong>of</strong> my life, Pierre Poignant for being careful and generous,Paul Francois Cossa for his humour, Adam Smith for welcoming me so well in the US and making mediscover his country, Ardoin de Masin and Erwan Letanneur for being there at my arrival at MIT andbeing great journeymen in Florida, Eeleen Tan for her kindness and highly valuable help. I would alsolike to thank Johnny Ribeiro in France and Emmanuel Clement-Wiltz in Australia for always being therein spite <strong>of</strong> the distance, Manon Breuvart for her wise advice and all my friends, particularly Julien Guyonand Arnaud Le Foll, with whom I had memorable parties back in France. Special thanks for StephaneKillian for being kind, patient and present for me.I would also like to thank my parents, Anne and Marcel, for their constant support that enabled me toundertake the studies I dreamed <strong>of</strong>, my sisters Geraldine and Constance for being understanding andhelpful sisters. .4

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