We examine the maximization problem of performance measure of financial structured products. For this purpose, we introduce the Kappa ratios, based on downside risk measures which take account of the asymmetry of the return probability distribution. First, we deal with the optimization of some...

For some commodities, the strong increase in demand over the last decade will have major impact on their future availability. Thus, the importance of assessing a commodity's criticality by means of criticality indicators continuously increases. In the literature, numerous indicators for...

We consider some pricing and risk management issues related to defaultable bonds, in the context of sovereign debt default and restructuring. Standard recovery schemes such as fractional recovery of market value, of Treasury and of face value are investigated: we discuss their consistency with...

We use adversarial corporate litigations between state owned and private owned firms in China to examine the strength of state provided formal institutions in protecting private property rights. Based on a unique hand collected data from 3,323 court rulings and 272 settlements on Chinese listed...

This paper demonstrates the simple incorporation of any shape of risk aversion into a pure asset allocation framework. Indeed, empirical studies show mixed evidence regarding the shape of this important but subjective variable (e.g., Holt and Laury, 2002; Meyer and Meyer, 2005; Guiso and Paiella, 2008)....

We study portfolio selection using Conditional Value-at-Risk and, as its natural extension, spectral risk measures instead of the variance. We do not focus only on the derivation of the efficient frontiers, but also consider the choice of optimal portfolios within an integrated framework. We...

Do demand or supply shocks which are not accompanied by new information affect prices? If so, is the price effect temporary ("price pressure hypothesis") or permanent ("imperfect substitutes hypothesis")? Numerous empirical studies have dealt with these questions and yet the issue is still...

This paper examines the equilibrium of portfolio under insurance constraints on the terminal wealth. We consider a single period economy in which agents search to maximize the expected utilities of their terminal wealths. Both partial and general optimal financial equilibria are determined and...

The aim of this research is to analyze consequences of the consideration of ethical principles in the financial decisions process of banks. More specifically we study how the consideration of Shariah principles could affect the capital structure of Islamic Banks. We first apply concepts and...

This paper analyses two-step spinoff based on consequences of the expected future change in value of a stakeholder's claim and its ability to block a restructuring. We show that a two-step spinoff allows an otherwise blocked value increasing (one-step) spinoff to take place by using the market...