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...

Attracting long-term investors from the private sector or in public-private partnerships for stable long-term investment in the innovative sectors and industries needed to generate sustained growth is crucial. Long-term investors want assets that generate regular cash flows, often linked to...

Building on Smith (1989), we describe the social processes surrounding a new financial OTC derivatives market, the market for credit derivatives. We show that in contradiction to more traditional derivatives, credit derivatives generate ambiguities of a cognitive and political nature. By...

The post-crisis and regulatory changes face banks with a new framework, replacing financial performance at the heart of their model. With the exception of risks associated with proprietary financial transactions, effects of the structure of income on the profitability and the stability of...

Islamic and conventional investment funds have the same purpose. However, unlike conventional funds, Islamic funds offer different investment contracts and have to invest in accordance with a set of selection rules. This dissertation focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis...

This paper first presents the workings (institutions, claims, issuance procedures and calendar) of the primary market for Treasury Bills within the Eurozone and in the U.K. Then, it describes the secondary market, and focuses on electronic platforms. Finally, it compares the efficiency of...

Because of their governance, investors are not able to develop long-term investment policies. While they have been outsourcing investment decision making to asset management firms and evaluation to intermediaries (consulting firms and credit rating agencies), they have contributed to the...

Because of their governance, investors are not able to develop long-term investment policies. While they have been outsourcing investment decision making to asset management firms and evaluation to intermediaries (consulting firms and credit rating agencies), they have contributed to the...