In the last forty years, the theory of financial markets has become a growing field of interest for academics as well as for practitioners. We present here an overview of the main topics.

This article documents the conditional and unconditional distributions of the realized volatility for the 2008 futures contract in the European climate exchange (ECX), which is valid under the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS). Realized volatility measures from naive, kernel-based and...

This book explains key financial concepts, mathematical tools and theories of mathematical finance. It is organized in four parts. The first brings together a number of results from discrete-time models. The second develops stochastic continuous-time models for the valuation of financial assets...

Despite the fact that real estate is the largest asset class in our economy, it is one of the few that do not have a mature derivatives market. Recent academic studies have shown that the lack of understanding of real estate derivatives’ prices is the main reason for the absence of a market....

In the first part of this thesis, we introduce a new methodology for stress-test exercises. Our approach allows to consider richer stress-test exercises, which assess the impact of a modification of the whole distribution of asset prices’ factors, rather than focusing as the common practices...

This paper analyses the response of the euro yield curve to macroeconomic and monetary policy announcements. We present a new methodology for estimating the reaction of the euro swap curve to economic news in a data-rich environment. Given the sharp degree of interdependence between euro and US...

Banks are supposed to respond to imperfect information in credit markets. They are thought to access private information and to create additional information through credit granting.This means two things. First, mandatory accounting information is not sufficient to create a state of perfect...

The article raises the concealment of sharing in La Monnaie souveraine (1998) and in the works it inspired. The neoliberalism made hegemonic an approach by the circulation of money and more generally of all social facts. However, this catallactic vision that some critics of the orthodox economy...