La fonction financière tend aujourd'hui à jouer un triple rôle : opérationnel, fonctionnel et politique. Son rôle opérationnel, son essence même, consiste à trouver et à gérer les ressources de l'entreprise; son rôle fonctionnel à gérer le système de planification et de contrôle de...

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 aim of our paper is to price credit derivatives written on a single name when this name is a bank. Indeed, due to the special structure of the balance sheet of a bank and to the interconnections with other institutions of the financial system, the standard pricing formulas do not apply and...

This paper presents a theory for Islamic venture capital namely ‘Mudharabah’ contract under adverse selection problem. In order to avoid selecting a low type entrepreneur for a given good project, the framework defines the profit sharing ratio (PSR) as a screening device. We then develop a...

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become...

Brand management contributions to performance are regularly questioned by CEOs. A few studies tried to assess the impact of brand management systems (BMSs) upon brand performance while there are still issues about the reliability and validity of the scale across business sectors. This study...

The present paper contributes to the body of knowledge on search frictions in credit markets by demonstrating their ability to explain why the net interest margins of banks behave countercyclically. During periods of expansion, a fall in the net interest margin proceeds from two mechanisms: (i)...

La tendance à transférer les risques sur les particuliers, à les sortir des bilans des établissements financiers pour les diluer, notamment sous forme de fonds de placements collectifs dans les avoirs d'une multitude d'épargnants éparpillés, est une tendance lourde de nos économies. La...

Offshoring goes on growing, in spite of some ebbing away. It has been especially the case for the financial services industry over the last couple of years. As a result of this trend, it is the double stake of globalization and industries specialization that is being addressed. The comprehensive...