L'objectif de cet article est de faire une présentation des travaux de M.C. Jensen dans le domaine de l'architecture et de la gouvernance des organisations. Après avoir précisé les principales composantes et le champ d’application de la théorie positive de l’agence,sont présentées les...

The goal of integrated risk management in a financial institution is to measure and manage risk and capital across a range of diverse business activities. This requires an approach for aggregating risk types (market, credit, and operational) whose distributional shapes vary considerably. In this...

Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces...

We employ a model of leverage-induced explosive behavior in financial markets to develop a measure of financial market instability. Specifically, we derive a quantitative condition for how large levered investors can become relative to the whole market before the demand curve for securities...

Remarks at the Workshop on Reforming Culture and Behavior in the Financial Services Industry, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.

Remarks at the Workshop on Reforming Culture and Behavior in the Financial Services Industry, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.

We build a general equilibrium model with financial frictions that impede the effectiveness of monetary policy in stimulating output. Agents with heterogeneous productivity can increase investment by levering up, but this increases interim liquidity risk. In equilibrium, the more productive...

I introduce the concept of hybrid intermediaries: financial conglomerates that control a multiplicity of entity types active in the “assembly line” process of modern financial intermediation, a system that has become known as shadow banking. The complex bank holding companies of today are...

En s’inspirant de la littérature relevant du champ du contrôle de gestion, en particulier du modèle des leviers de pilotage (levers of control) proposé par Simons (1995), l’objectif de cet article est de montrer quel peut être l’apport du management control pour analyser le pilotage...

(VF) Les coopérations inter-firmes, telles que les alliances, jouent un rôle important dans l’innovation,facteur de croissance économique des pays développés. Ces alliances sont particulièrement importantes pour le développement des PME, prépondérantes en Europe. Cet article a pour...