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The cost of equity capital is traditionally considered as an increasing function of the estimation risk – the risk of error regarding the distribution of a firm’s future cash flows (FCF). Under international GAAPs, IAS 36 “Impairment of assets” -based information disclosure conveys...
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The aim of our paper is to price credit derivatives written on a single name when this name is a bank. Indeed, due to … the special structure of the balance sheet of a bank and to the interconnections with other institutions of the financial … derivatives written on a single bank name requires a joint analysis of the risks of all banks directly or indirectly …
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Size has become a significant factor in explaining returns. According to the size effect, smaller capitalization stocks on average outperform larger capitalization stocks over long periods of time. This paper first documents the traditional size effect on the French market for the 1986-1998...
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When historical cost is used, the incomes are smoothed in a way that delays the recognition of the financial institutions lessening solvency, especially in the case of fixed rate loans when market rates are decreasing. We study the case of Credit Lyonnais which had the opportunity to transfer...
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This paper investigates how the introduction of an index security directly or indirectly impacts the underlying-index spot-futures pricing. Using intraday data for financial instruments related to the CAC 40 index, we do not find that the spot-futures price efficiency improvement observed after...
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The purpose of the regulated interruptions of quotation on Stock exchange markets is to reduce asymmetries of information and volatility and to allow the emergence of a consensus. The use of these interruptions is very frequent on the French stock exchange market for the values included in the...
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This article proposes a new empirical methodology for computing a cross-market volatility index - coined CMIX - based on the Factor-Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model, implemented on volatility surprises. This approach solves problems in treating high-dimensional data and estimating...
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The credit risk on the bond market is characterized by the possible default of a counterparty, but also by changes in the spread following a perceived deterioration, by the market, of the credit quality of the issuer. This thesis focuses on credit spreads on corporate bond market in euros....
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The thesis presents a construction of a grid that discretizes the threshold model introduced by Geman and Roncoroni (2006) for electricity spot prices, incorporating both mean reversion and jumps, the direction of the latter depending on the price of the underlying at the time of the jump. The...
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