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Equity portfolio insurance against a benchmark: Setting, replication and optimality

Bahaji, Hamza - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

This paper undertakes the issue of portfolio insurance from the perspective of a risk-averse agent requiring his financial wealth to grow at a floored rate in excess of an equity benchmark. The suggested solution is a generalization of the CPPI approach within a two-equity asset framework. The...

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Air Quality in America

Hayward, Steven F.; Schwartz, Joel - American Enterprise Institute

Schwartz and Hayward offer an alternative analysis of air pollution levels, trends, and prospects in metropolitan areas across the United States.

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No Way Back

Schwartz, Joel - American Enterprise Institute

Claims that air pollution will increase are not only false, but the exact opposite of what will actually happen.

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Gouvernance, démocratie et lutte contre la pauvreté : enseignements tirés des enquêtes auprès des ménages en Afrique sub-saharienne et en Amérique latine

Roubaud, François; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Herrera, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)

, governance, and social and political participation). To take up this challenge, modules on Governance, Democracy and Multiple … on governance; the perception of decentralisation policies at local level; the level and vitality of social and political …

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Gouvernance, démocratie et lutte contre la pauvreté en Afrique : Expérience et point de vue de la population de huit métropoles. Enquêtes 1-2-3, premiers résultats

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development programmes … institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this major … development and for monitoring them in quantitative terms. Three specific modules (Multiple Dimensions of Poverty, Governance and …

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Are international databases on corruption reliable? A comparison of expert opinion surveys and household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

This study examines the limits of global corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. It draws on a wave of original surveys conducted in eight African countries that combined two types of approaches. The first approach covers a sample of over 35,000 people and uses experience-based...

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Peut-on se fier aux bases de données internationales sur la corruption ? Une confrontation entre enquêtes-experts et enquêtes-ménages en Afrique subsaharienne

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

The emergence of institutions, governance and especially corruption as major development considerations has generated a … matters of “good governance”. These findings make a case for a more cautious and rational use of global governance indicators …

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