This paper analyses the private equity fund compensation. We build a model to estimate the expected revenue of fund managers as a function of their investor contracts. We tried to evaluate the present value of the carried interest, which is one of the most common profit sharing arrangements...

Attracting long-term investors from the private sector or in public-private partnerships for stable long-term investment in the innovative sectors and industries needed to generate sustained growth is crucial. Long-term investors want assets that generate regular cash flows, often linked to...

Building on Smith (1989), we describe the social processes surrounding a new financial OTC derivatives market, the market for credit derivatives. We show that in contradiction to more traditional derivatives, credit derivatives generate ambiguities of a cognitive and political nature. By...

Budgetary process have been highly criticized for many years. Through seven case studies, this paper tries to assess the relevance of these criticisms. Two answers are defined. First, we show that criticisms are concentrated on few roles attributed to budgets. Second, thanks to a analytic...

Cet article est une réflexion à caractère épistémologique et pédagogique sur la connaissance du fait financier dans l'entreprise. Sont d'abord examinées dans cet article les différentes façons de l'identifier : de façon empirique à travers les tâches de la direction financière ou...