Interest rates behaved highly atypically from 2004 to 2006. While the US central bank raised its policy rate at every meeting, long-term interest rates remained so remarkably stable that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan described their behaviour as a "conundrum". Comparing long-term rates to...

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...

Aborde la plupart des techniques financières internationales concernant notamment les exportations, les investissements, les projets internationaux en constant renouvellement et les thèmes essentiels de la finance internationale. Comporte des questions de révision, de réflexion et de...

La balance des paiements est un document statistique qui présente l'ensemble des flux entre une économie et le reste du monde durant une période donnée. Cet outil est couramment utilisé pour établir le diagnostic de l'évaluation macro-économique d'une économie. Propose une synthèse sur...

This paper traces R. G. Hawtrey’s main contributions to the theory of the lender of last resort national both (LLR) and international (ILLR). This theory is a continuation of one of the traditions of the classical period, started by Henry Thornton (1802) , that differs in important points from...

Contrary to a wide-spread opinion, it was not Ricardo who developed the gold-points theory, but Thornton. Thornton did it in complement of its lender in last resort theory to justify the suspension of payments and to explain the high price of bullion. Ricardo rejected the Thornton’s gold...

We assess the nature of the European sovereign crisis in the light of a model borrowed from the second generation of currency crises. We bring the theory to the data to empirically test the presence of self-fulfilling dynamics and to identify what may have driven the market sentiment during this...

Aborde la plupart des techniques financières internationales concernant notamment les exportations, les investissements, les projets internationaux en constant renouvellement et les thèmes essentiels de la finance internationale. Comporte des questions de révision, de réflexion et de...

Le premier objet de cet ouvrage est d'exposer les formes de la financiarisation des stratégies. Le second est de présenter les concepts et les mesures qui servent aux gérants de fonds à évaluer la rentabilité de leurs entreprises. Sont ainsi mêlées les analyses sur les techniques...