Since the 1990s’, a relatively ample research has been undertaken regarding the measurement of the volatility of bank earnings over time. The comparison between traditional deposits-loans banking and financial activities is a further specific theme in bank performance research. Few analyses...

By introducing a structure of the balance sheets of the banks, which takes into account their bilateral exposures in terms of stocks or lendings, we get a structural model for default analysis. This model allows us to distinguish the exogenous and endogenous default dependence. We prove the...

The post-crisis financial reforms address the need for systemic regulation, focused not only on individual banks but also on the whole financial system. The regulator principal objective is to set banks' capital requirements equal to international minimum standards in order to mimimise systemic...

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...

Through this study we checked within the framework of the fair value model, the consistency between the hedge-accounting recommended by the IAS 39 and the objectives of the capital regulation in the banking industry. We conclude that the macro-hedge is the most appropriate approach given the...

During this interview, Joel Metais retraces the milestones in the history of the financial industry, suffering under the constraints, as least as far as retail banks are concerned, of rules and regulations constituting thinly veiled protectionism, which in Europe has at last begun to give way to...

Dès le 1er janvier 2005, les normes comptables applicables aux établissements de crédit cotés membres de l'Union européenne seront celles produites par l'IASB. Ces normes accordent une part croissante à la juste valeur. L'objectif de ce papier consiste en l'étude des caractéristiques de...