In this study, we investigate the trading dynamics around rights issues. We employ signed and unsigned trading activity measures in order to provide evidence of costly financial intermediation. We, first, document short selling activity by underwriters and shareholders during rights issues...

The trading systems used on financial markets differ in terms of matching procedures, selected norms to write contracts, existence or not of intermediaries to ensure liquidity, market transparency... We are interested in measuring the direct effect on market specifics of a matching procedure...

We analyze empirically the determinants of Eurozone Treasury bills yields. Market microstructure as well as macroeconomic variables are found to significantly impact yields. Secondary trading in a centralized transparent electronic limit order book enhances liquidity and thus reduce yields....

In the French language, the word comptabiliteacute (accounting) first appeared in the middle of the eighteenth century. It was used in the Royal finances and its first meaning was that of accountability. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, or thereabouts, the uses of the word evolved...

This article applies a two-step conditional Bayesian approach to hedge fund risk. First, a mixture or-two normal distributions is estimated for a core asset; one distribution being identified as linked to a "quiet" regime and the other to a "hectic" regime. The conditional probabilities of each...

In this paper the modelling of venture capital decision making is being attempted, using a multicriteria decision support system (the Minora system) based on the interactive use of the Uta ordinal regression model. First, a review of the literature on the evaluation criteria for venture capital...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Bank of Japan's official interventions on the JPY/USD parity during the period 1992–2004. The novelty of our approach is to combine two recent advances of the empirical literature on foreign exchange interventions: (i) drawing on...

We investigate in this paper the recovery of the local volatility surface in a parametric framework similar to that of Coleman, Li and Verma [4]. The quality of a surface is assessed through a functional which is optimized; the specificity of the approach is to separate the optimization on the...

Présentation des bases de la programmation en VBA sous Excel : nature et organisation des objets, architecture des projets, structures de contrôle, doublée d'une approche financière (analyse technique des rentabilités boursières, gestion de portefeuille, évaluation des options).