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...

This paper studies a very thorough e-trading data base, including all of the bid/ask orders and daily portfolio values of more than 600 on-line amateur traders in the Paris Stock market focusing on the stormy period covering 2007-2009. Traders also participate in a monthly contest and can win...

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...

Présente les modalités d'une gestion rigoureuse des risques financiers et les méthodes d'évaluation (en temps discret et en temps continu) des produits dérivés (contrat à terme et options) quel que soit l'actif sous-jacent (indice boursier, action, devise, taux d'intérêt). Analyse les...

Activité récente, le capital investissement est aujourd'hui au coeur du financement des entreprises. À l'échelle internationale, le niveau des montants levés par le capital investissement s'élevait en 2004 à 2 241 milliards d'euros. Aujourd'hui, le capital investissement européen et...

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...

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...