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This paper aims at reviewing selected literature on (1) structural financial changes observed in a large sample of transition economies in the Central and/or Oriental Europe during the last two decades, (2) efficiency of this financial liberalization in relative terms (in macroeconomic sense),...
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Les taux de croissance du crédit dépassent ou avoisinent 30 à 50 % l’an dans certains pays d’Europe centrale, orientale et du sud-est (pays baltes, Bulgarie, Roumanie, Albanie et Macédoine). Ces taux de croissance élevés sont-ils susceptibles de générer des « excès » de crédit,...
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Presumably, foreign banks open subsidiaries and branches in Luxembourg to perform different tasks. This paper studies the balance sheet structure of banks in Luxembourg, testing for differences across groups and across periods. Non-parametric methods yield several findings. First, specialisation...
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We develop a geographical-based vibrancy index using important location characteristics that measure local economic health. We show that local vibrancy is associated with future firm outcomes, including investment, leverage, profitability, and firm value. More vibrant firms are located in...
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Short lived arbitrage opportunities arise when prices adjust with a lag to new information. They are toxic because they expose dealers to the risk of trading at stale quotes. Hence, theory implies that more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities and a faster arbitrageurs' response to these...
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Information processing filters out the noise in data but it takes time. Hence, low precision signals are available before high precision signals. We analyze how this feature affects asset price informativeness when investors can acquire signals of increasing precision over time about the payoff...
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Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation — both in the time series and in the cross-section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...
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French Abstract: L'indice boursier est parmi les principaux indicateurs auxquels les investisseurs se réfèrent pour analyser l'état de santé d'une place donnée. Ainsi, la création d'un indice boursier islamique conforme à la Shari'a peut constituer une référence utile pour les...
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French Abstract: Cette étude fait une synthèse d'une sélection de recherches publiées dans le domaine de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises afin de proposer aux praticiens de l'évaluation financière une décote-surcote du coût moyen pondéré du capital (CMPC) en fonction de la...
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French abstract: Le présent papier formalise un nouveau modèle de dynamique du système des prix du marché action, capable de saisir un large spectre de phénomènes renseignés par la littérature académique financière. Le modèle s’attache particulièrement à rendre compte de trois...
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