The emergence of a knowledge capitalism is often considered as an alternative to a financial capitalism. Our goal is to explain why the financial capitalism hypothesis is not relevant to characterize and to show that the hypothesis of a knowledge capitalism can provide an explanation of the...

Cette recherche a été menée avant la mise en place obligatoire des normes IFRS aux sociétés cotées. Elle trouve son origine dans le constat du hiatus entre l'importance croissante des marques, et plus largement du capital immatériel, dans les actifs de l'entreprise et la faiblesse...

(VF)Selon les règles comptables françaises, les sociétés ont la possibilité de « capitaliser » leurs frais de R&D sous certaines conditions. En analysant les rapports annuels 2000 des sociétés non financières appartenant à l’indice SBF 250, nous avons tenté de comprendre pourquoi...

Characterizing asset return dynamics using volatility models is an important part of empirical finance. The existing literature favors some rather complex volatility specifications whose relative performance is usually assessed through their likelihood based on a time-series of asset returns....

This paper presents the main improvements carried out to the macroeconometric model MZE since its creation in 2003. We have back-calculated the series over the period 1980-1995, in order to make the model more stable. To our knowledge, this paper is the first application of Kllians (1998) method...