Decisions taken by the manager of a bank are subject to the regulatory discipline of the Basel Committee in conjunction with the supervisory discipline of the Board of Directors, a body that represents shareholders. This research demonstrates that the two types of discipline act in complement to...

Deregulation and progress in information and communication technologies have increased the geographical expansion of banking structures and instruments. This makes banks operationally close to the borrowers. At the same time, banking industry consolidation have induced a geographical...

Deregulation and progress in information and communication technologies have increased the geographical expansion of banking structures and instruments. This makes banks operationally close to the borrowers. At the same time, banking industry consolidation have induced a geographical...

Le colloque « Transmission de l’entreprise à titre gratuit : quelle sécurité fiscale ? », organisé en juin 2003 par l’IDEFS (Université de Paris Dauphine), l’ASMEP et la Semaine juridique, sur le thème de l’évaluation des entreprises non cotées, a eu pour objet de confronter la...

Selon le principe de la muraille de Chine, les activités de gestion doivent pouvoir s’organiser de manière totalement indépendante des activités du dépositaire. En pratique, le principe de cloisonnement entre les activités du dépositaire et celles de la SGP peut apparaître comme une...

We consider a setting in which two potential buyers, one with a prior toehold and one without, compete in a takeover modeled as an ascending auction with participating costs. The toeholder is more aggressive during the takeover process because she is also a seller of her own shares. The...