Conflicts of interest are the inherent price to pay to benefit from information synergies offered by multiple financial service providers. We focus on conflicts faced by a investment bank's "guru" sell-side analyst, which is torn between the pro-investor research department favoring fair...

Selon les travaux de Hamada (1972), Ryan (1997) et Pae (2002), l’incertitude des investisseurs sur la valeur est liée aux sources de risques sectoriels et inhérents. Depuis, peu de travaux se sont intéressées à la relation entre les informations liées aux sources de risques et le marché...

This article explains the role of the convenience yield in the relationships linking spot and futures prices in commodity derivatives markets. First, this variable restores the non arbitrage relationship between the prices of the underlying asset and the derivative instrument. Second, it allows...

This study reconsiders the problem of hedging a liability by a portfolio made of a riskless asset and an underlying (underlying).

This paper examines how credit derivatives have changed the construction of an efficient portfolio. Credit derivatives provide a way of gaining exposure to credit risk alone, to the exclusion of interest rate risk. They also permit a relatively easy use of leverage. We examine two types of...

L’objectif du papier est de fournir une première analyse exploratoire des déterminants macroéconomiques des primes de taux. L’optique retenue est celle des choix de portefeuille opérés par les banques à leur actif. Dès lors, les primes de taux sont calculées en comparant un actif...

We develop a dynamic model in which traders have differential information about the payoff of the risky asset and trade the risky asset with proportional transaction costs. Firstly, trading volume provides useful information on the asset fundamental value which cannot be inferred from the...

This article examines how the inception of an ETF market impacts several dimensions of the liquidity of the ETF-underlying-index stocks. In contrast with previous research, our evidence is based on an ETF market where liquidity providers (LPs) act as market makers. We find that: (1) the market...