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...

This paper first presents the workings (institutions, claims, issuance procedures and calendar) of the primary market for Treasury Bills within the Eurozone and in the U.K. Then, it describes the secondary market, and focuses on electronic platforms. Finally, it compares the efficiency of...

We point out that the two and half years of negotiation (1692-1694) between a group of investors and the English government, who led to the establishment of the Bank of England, aimed to guarantee the liquidity of a new public debt and not to establish a bank. We analyze the evolution of the...

This article proposes a new approach to liquidity on financial markets : do not considers liquidity individually, or stock by stock, but takes a common or systematic approach. Common factors in liquidity do exist, and they can cause the liquidity of each stock to vary simultaneously. This point...

Because of their governance, investors are not able to develop long-term investment policies. While they have been outsourcing investment decision making to asset management firms and evaluation to intermediaries (consulting firms and credit rating agencies), they have contributed to the...