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...

Les critiques de la finance contemporaine portent en grande partie sur le comportement de nouveaux acteurs financiers comme les hedge funds, les fonds de private equity et les fonds souverains. Jean-Hervé Lorenzi et Philippe Trainar nous aident ici à discerner les fantasmes de la réalité en...

The aim of this pH-D thesis is to answer the following question : Is it possible to use the information offered by the commodity futures markets and the hedging instruments they propose to value a petroleum field and decide when it is suitable to invest ? A term structure model for commodity...

The aim of this pH-D thesis is to answer the following question : Is it possible to use the information offered by the commodity futures markets and the hedging instruments they propose to value a petroleum field and decide when it is suitable to invest ? A term structure model for commodity...

We provide new rationales for corporate venturing (CV), based on competition for talented managers. As returns to venturing increase, firms engage in CV for reasons other than capturing these returns. First, higher venturing returns increase managerial compensation, to which firms respond by...

This paper analyses the private equity fund compensation. We build a model to estimate the expected revenue of fund managers as a function of their investor contracts. We tried to evaluate the present value of the carried interest, which is one of the most common profit sharing arrangements...

It can be stated that, in France, a conventionality and a form of complacency probably stemmed from the standardization process. As a consequence, independent research has tended so far to concentrate more on fields that do not reside within the confines of the works of the standard-setting...

In this theoretical paper, I examine bargaining over the financial terms of a contract between an entrepreneur willing to realize a project and a supportive financier such as a venture capitalist. I study the impact of the endogenous opportunity to resort to non-supportive financiers such as...

This paper explores the relationship between venture capitalists (VCs)’ financial contracts and the characteristics of these VCs. Analyzing VCs' responses to our questionnaire, we find that VCs’ contractual behaviors differ according to affiliation and experience. VCs working for independent...

This article provides a comparative analysis of pension plan allocations to private equity and to venture capital in the United States and in Canada. Although the assets of American funds in our data are worth 10 times those of Canadian funds, their investment in private equity is about 20 times...