This paper aims to study the contagion effects of the subprime financial crisis on the real economy of the USA. The contagion of this crisis is measured by increased linkages between markets after a shock has taken place (the stock market shocks, the interbank spread). The VAR model is utilized...

We decompose volatility of a stock market index both in time and scale using wavelet filters and design a probabilistic indicator for valatilities, analogous to the Richter scale in geophysics. The peak-over-threshold method is used to fit the generalized Pareto probability distribution for the...

The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the value relevance of the book value and earnings on a sample of companies belonging to the financial sector, made up largely of banks. The sample is taken from several European markets in IFRS, namely the Benelux countries, France,...

Cet article décrit, en recourrant aux approches DEA et aux frontières de production stochastisques, la mise en place d'un outil de benchmaking interne dans le secteur des services. Il permet également de valider l'utilisation de temps standards d'opérations lorsque la fonction de production...