The paper examines a dynamic model of a financial market with endogenous asset prices determined by short run equilibrium of supply and demand. Assets pay dividends, that are partially consumed and partially reinvested. The traders use fixed-mix investment strategies (portfolio rules),...

An essential element of any realistic investment portfolio selection is the consideration of transaction costs. Our purpose, in this paper, is to determine the maximum return and the corresponding number of securities to buy giving such return, whenever practical constraints features related to...

In this paper we study BSDEs arising from a special class of backward stochastic partial differential equations (BSPDEs) that is intimately related to utility maximization problems with respect to arbitrary utility functions. After providing existence and uniqueness we discuss the numerical...

This article proposes a mean-variance optimisation and portfolio frontier analysis of energy risk management with carbon assets, introduced in January 2005 as part of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. In a stylised exercise, we compute returns, standard deviations and correlations for various...

Since the energy markets liberalization at the beginning of the 1990s in Europe, electricity monopolies have gone through a profound evolution process. From an industrial organization point of view, they lost their monopoly on their historical business, but gained the capacity to develop in any...

Reviews the book 'Financial Analysis and Corporate Strategy,' by Mark Grinblatt and Sheridan Titman.

Cet ouvrage décrit l'organisation d'un marché d'actions et expose les concepts de base de la gestion de portefeuille et des risques : la rentabilité, la volatilité, l'hostilité au risque, les principes et les avantages de la diversification. Il présente les modèles linéaires...

This paper takes full advantage of daily quoted prices of microfinance stocks from their issuance, and draws a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity from the viewpoint of a profit-oriented investor. We construct microfinance country equity indices and an international global...

Bourse et gestion de portefeuille est le titre de cet ouvrage. Bourse car les marchés de titres, les mécanismes de rencontre entre l’offre et la demande de titres, ainsi que les principes de fixation des cours, sont précisés principalement dans la première partie. Gestion de portefeuille...

In the first part of this thesis, we introduce a new methodology for stress-test exercises. Our approach allows to consider richer stress-test exercises, which assess the impact of a modification of the whole distribution of asset prices’ factors, rather than focusing as the common practices...