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Managing IT Outsourcing Risk: Lessons Learned

Aubert, Benoit A.; Patry, Michel; Rivard, Suzanne - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

This document takes stock from several studies on outsourcing risk. A definition of risk is offered and illustration from many case studies is used to show how risk can be managed. Results show that an active risk management approach can reduce risk exposure subtantially while enabling the...

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Capital Structure and Risk Management

Gobert, Karine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

This paper examines the impact of capital structure on the optimality of contingent financial contracts. The role of financial relationships is not only to provide funds but also to offer insurance to a risk adverse entrepreneur through contingent financial transfers. Since such financial...

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Testing and Comparing Value-at-Risk Measures

Christoffersen, Peter; Hahn, Jinyong; Inoue, Atsushi - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

Value-at-Risk (VaR) has emerged as the standard tool for measuring and reporting financial market risk. Currently, more than eighty commercial vendors offer enterprise or trading risk management systems which report VaR-like measures. Risk managers are therefore often left with the daunting task...

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The Value of Real and Financial Risk Management

Boyer, Marcel; Boyer, M. Martin; Garcia, René - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2005

We characterize a firm as a nexus of activities and projects with their associated cashflows. Production and operations activities and real risk management activities distribute cashflows over states of nature and time periods, leading to a transformation possibility frontier similar to a...

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Estimation Risk in Financial Risk Management

Christoffersen, Peter; Gonçalves, Sílvia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) are increasingly used in portfolio risk measurement, risk capital allocation and performance attribution. Financial risk managers are therefore rightfully concerned with the precision of typical VaR and ES techniques. The purpose of this paper is...

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Alleviating Coordination Problems and Regulatory Constraints through Financial Risk Management

Boyer, Marcel; Boyer, M. Martin; Garcia, René - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

We characterize a firm as a nexus of activities and projects with their associated cash flow distributions across states of the world and time periods. We propose a characterization of the firm where variations in the market price of risk induce adjustments in the value-maximizing combination of...

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Industrie aérospatiale nord-américaine et performance des sous-traitants : Écarts entre le Canada et les États-Unis

Bourgault, Mario - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

présente des défis importants pour les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) impliquées à titre de sous-traitants. La … tirées d'une enquête réalisée auprès de 273 PME localisées sur le territoire nord-américain (Canada et États-Unis), et … côté des firmes de taille moyenne. Les PME canadiennes s'écartent peu du profil de sous-traitant traditionnel, alors que …

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The Indirect Costs of Venture Capital in Canada

Carpentier, Cécile; Suret, Jean-Marc - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2005

Some analysts and policy makers consider that the growth of New Technology Based Firms (NTBF) is impeded by an insufficient supply of capital. In Canada, as in other jurisdictions, the public authorities have interceded to fill this equity gap by increasing the supply of funds. However, several...

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Performance à l'exportation et innovation technologique dans les PME manufacturières indépendantes

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

dominé par les compétences technologiques. Cette concurence exige des PME qu'elles0501ntiennent un important niveau d …'efforts innovateurs afin de pouvoir assurer leur croissance. L'objectif de l'étude est d'analyser les efforts innovateurs de certaines PME … égards, permet entre autres de dresser le profil des PME les plus actives sur les marchés internationaux. Il appert que ces …

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Technological Penetration and Cumulative Benefits in SMEs

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Roy, Marie Josée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

The relative importance of the benefits derived from the adoption of computer-based administrative and production applications depends to a large extent on the level of technological penetration attained by a particular firm. This evolutionary perspective is investigated in an empirical study...

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