The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund launched a joint initiative in September 1999, setting the fight against poverty at the heart of development policies. Under this initiative, developing countries wishing to apply for financial aid from either of the organizations, or for debt...

Depuis les années 2000, les déséquilibres financiers internationaux sont à nouveau au coeur des préoccupations. Face au déficit croissant de la balance courante américaine, le reste du monde accumule les excédents. Le paradoxe est évident : le pays le plus riche est celui qui vit le...

This article advocates a systematic rebalancing process –Volatility-Driven Asset Allocation or VDAA – for dynamically managing the strategic asset allocation. The goal of the suggested algorithm is to adjust the asset exposures so as to reflect the assumptions investors used when determining...

Cet ouvrage décrit l'organisation d'un marché d'actions et expose les concepts de base de la gestion de portefeuille et des risques : la rentabilité, la volatilité, l'hostilité au risque, les principes et les avantages de la diversification. Il présente les modèles linéaires...

L’accélération des échanges internationaux de capitaux a révélé au grand public le rôle déterminant joué par le fonctionnement des marchés financiers. La Bourse est dans ce cadre un acteur central, lieu de rencontre – réel et virtuel – entre l’offre et la demande de capitaux....

This work shows how long-term investors can benefit from adding volatility as an asset class to their portfolio. Two types of "structural" exposure – long implied volatility and long volatility risk premium – are now simple to implement. Implied volatility exposure can be used to...

Adding volatility exposure to an equity portfolio offers interesting opportunities for long-term investors. This article discusses the advantages of adding a long volatility strategy for a protection to a global European equity portfolio and to specific equity portfolios based in "core" or...

This paper takes full advantage of daily quoted prices of microfinance stocks from their issuance, and draws a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity from the viewpoint of a profit-oriented investor. We construct microfinance country equity indices and an international global...

In this article, tests for globalization and contagion are separated using an ex ante definition of crises, and contagion tests are neutralized with respect to globalization effects. A large database is constructed to study the stability of correlation matrices for four asset classes : equities,...