This article focuses on the financial crisis beginning in 2008. Drawing on the work of Lebaron (2010; 2011) and (Grün 2010), the study seeks to grasp the "cognitive dimension" of the crisis through the discourses produced (and reproduced) by members of the Brazilian government involved in...

Using the most comprehensive publicly available data to-date, we study the effect of three aspects of pension regulation (namely quantitative investment restrictions, minimum return or benefit guarantee, and the type of supervising authority) on risk-adjusted funded pension performance in 27...

As a stock exchange dedicated to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the success of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has established this segment of the London Stock Exchange as the benchmark, of which the Alternext is considered a flawed copy. This article aims to invalidate this...

Elective affinity seems to link reform of retirement, development of long-term investments and SRI next decades. They so suggest the possibility of an endogenous evolution of financial capitalism which would become more favourable to a long term perspective, without departing from the principle...

This article considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption, and culture in setting fund manager fees. With better legal conditions, fixed fees are lower, carried interest fees are higher, clawbacks are less likely, and share...

This paper considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption and culture in setting fund manager fees in terms of their fixed management fees, carried interest performance fees, clawbacks of fees and cash versus share...

This paper considers an international sample of conventional and Islamic mutual funds to assess whether law, culture and political risk affect their compensation fees and expense ratio. The data are hand-collected from many sources. Overall, the results show strongly that legal conditions,...

Le pouvoir financier des salariés au moyen de leur épargne dans les fonds de pension est ici évalué au vu des règles juridiques qui régissent ces dispositifs.

This paper proposes to analyse the system of american pension plans from an institutional and historical point of view. Since the 1970s, changes in pension regulation have occured simultaneoulsy with changes in capital markets, industrial relations and civil and social rights areas. Analysis is...

les fonds de pension états-uniens ont connu de profondes transformations depuis les années 1970. cette évolution se déroule simultanément à d'autres transformations institutionnelles majeures aux Etats-Unis, remettant en question l'héritage du New Deal.