The post-crisis and regulatory changes face banks with a new framework, replacing financial performance at the heart of their model. With the exception of risks associated with proprietary financial transactions, effects of the structure of income on the profitability and the stability of...

Islamic and conventional investment funds have the same purpose. However, unlike conventional funds, Islamic funds offer different investment contracts and have to invest in accordance with a set of selection rules. This dissertation focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis...

The aim of this thesis is to improve the management of financial risks through the employment of econometric methods. We focus on liquidity (market and funding), contagion and systemic risk, which have attracted a particularly large interest in the last years of financial turmoil. Firstly, we...

Investors often fail to incorporate all relevant information when they make decisions. This is a consequence of both information overload and investors’ limited cognitive abilities. The first essay shows that firms take advantage of investors’ inattention by managing the advance notice...

The development in Islam is sustainable and stipulates the meeting between capitals and knowledge through the moudaraba formula that gave birth to the current IF!. The Islamic Private Equity Funds are, theoretically, the solution for the failure of the IF1 in the development processes. The...

This doctoral thesis develops regime-switching models of the term structure of interest rates. A general framework is proposed to model the joint dynamics of yield curves associated with different debtors (Chapter 2). This framework is exploited to analyse the fluctuations of ten euro-area...

Is the investor able to identify the highest performing analysts on the basis of results of annual sell-side analysts ranking surveys? The thesis aims to examine this question using two empirical studies. The first addresses the factors that explain the choice of an analyst within a ranking....

The European Union is completely redesigning the system of prudential supervision of insurance institutions as part of the Solvency Directive II. During its implementation, the Directive, which can be compared to the Basel II prudential standard, was analysed above all in terms of actuarial...

The research aims at studying the compliance of financial practices, the body of rules applicable to financial market participants. It studies the compliance function, a cornerstone of the compliance control system in place within financial services providers. Through this function, we highlight...

The small capitalizations’ specificity (the size effect), has been in the centre of finance researches for many years; Only a few studies focus however on this segment. This research deals with companies of Euronext Paris lists B and C over the years 1994-2004. The APT model, with the use of...