Carry trade strategies in which investors sell forward currencies that are at a forward premium and buy forward currencies that are at a forward discount are, on average, profitable. According to the uncovered interest rate parity they should not. A risk premia story might justify the high...

We build a new measure of investor sentiment only based on changes in diversification levels of individual investors' portfolios. The dynamics of the number of different stocks in portfolios is modelized as a Markov chain. We measure investor sentiment as the area above the cumulative...

Can the Fama-French (1993) factors and Carhart's (1997) momentum factor be derived from CAPM? Surprisingly, the answer is YES, once a basic form of stock market incompleteness is accounted for. Investors cannot trade growth opportunities (GOs) separately from net assets in place (NAIPs). Because...

Following the literature about Socially Responsible Investment performance, the purpose of this paper is to study the investment style and the performance of French ethical funds from January 1994 to January 2007. The performance measurement aims to verify if an active management based on...

The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which major industrial crises have a long-run effect on shareholder wealth. We add to the previous evidence that such crises can have a short-term negative impact on stock prices. The long-term effect is important because institutional...

Dividends, particularly of acquiring firms are influenced by several structural adjustments especially after mergers. Using the dividend clientele hypothesis, we hypothesize that acquirer dividend policy is more likely to change after the merger if dividend policies of firms involved in a...

This paper reconsiders the issue of share price reactions to dividend announcements. Previous papers rely almost exclusively on a naive dividend model in which the dividend change is used as a proxy for the dividend surprise. We use the difference between the actual dividend and the analyst...

In this paper we propose a new analysis of the association between the growth of the earnings per share (EPS) as reflected in analysts' forecasts, the book value of equity, the EPS and the market value of equity. Specifically, we motivate and introduce a new specification of the dynamics of the...

We empirically examine the effects of venture capital (VC) firms on VC backed listed companies in French Nouveau Marché and Second Marché between 1991 and 2004. While studies in the US market shown a lower underpricing and a better long run performance for VC backed firms, we find that the...

In the 1990s, European merger regulation (EMR) was biased against foreign acquirers, especially if the deal harmed domestic rivals (i.e., protectionism). In 2002, the Court of First Instance overturned three prohibitions by the European Commission (EC) and criticized its economic analysis. These...