Présentation d'un ensemble d'instruments financiers permettant de réduire les risques pris par l'acheteur dans une économie mondialisée. Dans l'industrie, ces outils financiers confortent l'analyse économique et stratégique des décisions d'investissement.

Does historical performance helps predict future performance of portfolio managers and does persistence in performance exist? These are some of the recurring questions that used to be raised in this part of financial literature. Different methods since the 60's have been proposed but many of...

The mispricing of the deep-in-the money and deep-out-the-money generated by the Black and Scholes model is now well documented in the literature. In this paper, we discuss different option valuation models on the basis of empirical tests carry out on the French option market. We examine methods...

The post-crisis financial reforms address the need for systemic regulation, focused not only on individual banks but also on the whole financial system. The regulator principal objective is to set banks' capital requirements equal to international minimum standards in order to mimimise systemic...

Extreme value theory has been widely applied in insurance and finance to model rare events. Plenty of such events have occurred in financial markets during the last two decades, including stock market crashes, currency crises, or large bankruptcies. This article applies extreme value theory...

The post-crisis financial reforms address the need for systemic regulation, focused not only on individual banks but also on the whole financial system. The regulator principal objective is to set banks' capital requirements equal to international minimum standards in order to mimimise systemic...