This article looks inside the black box of order flows to understand why order flows models of exchange rate are more competitive than traditional models of exchange rate. We set a theoretical model that relies on a behavioural exchange rate model and a microstructure model. The model puts...

The volume of transaction varies according to several factors. Of a point of view of the behavioural finance, a high level of this last can be assigned to a phenomenon of overconfidence or a disposition effect. This paper studies these two phenomena as well as the one of the asymmetry of 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...

La finalité de cet ouvrage est pédagogique. Il est destiné à faciliter l’acquisition des connaissances dans le domaine de la finance internationale et celui de la gestion des risques. Cette nouvelle édition, actualisée et rénovée, regroupe tous les thèmes importants de ces deux...

This study extends the traditional set of central bank's interventions to include official announcements in order to provide empirical evidence on two pivotal questions: (i) are FX authorities able to influence market expectations with different instruments? (ii) how should interventions be...

Recueil d'exercices et de QCM corrigés pour faciliter l'acquisition des compétences minimales, dans le domaine de la finance internationale.

Dans la plupart des pays développés, les marchés financiers ont connu un essor rapide et important entre les années 1970 et 1990, après une longue période où ils ont occupé une place mineure dans le financement de l’économie. Cette phase n’est pas sans précédent, dans la mesure...

We revisit the index leverage effect, that can be decomposed into a volatility effect and a correlation effect. We investigate the latter using a matrix regression analysis, that we call ‘Principal Regression Analysis’ (PRA) and for which we provide some analytical (using Random Matrix...

Understanding the relationships among multivariate assets would help one greatly about how best to position one’s investments and enhance one’s financial risk protection. We present a new method to model parametrically the dependence structure of stock index returns through a continuous...