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As most Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) engage in securities lending or are based on total return swaps, they expose their investors to counterparty risk. In this paper, we estimate empirically such risk exposures for a sample of physical and swap-based funds. We find that counterparty risk...
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(VF)Cet article propose d'étudier la stabilité des performances de certains fonds de retraite anglais. Nos résultats montrent que les fonds investis en actions sont caractérisés par une réversion de leurs performances alors que les fonds obligataires connaissent une certaine pérennité...
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In a crisis of public finances, France bases all its hopes on the "evaluation of performance" to moderate the effects of a complex crisis. Under the banner of "modernization of the State", a new "financial constitution" called the Organic Law on finance laws (LOLF) became the main lever of...
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What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support the legitimacy of new products that undergo performance evaluation before purchase. Using historical and ethnographic data...
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French Abstract: Le papier met en évidence les apports de la théorie des valeurs extrêmes (TVE) et son application à la mesure de VaR, et examine son effet sur la prise en compte des risques extrêmes. A cet égard, le papier étudie empiriquement l'indice SX5E sur une période de 22...
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French Abstract: En théorie, les banques islamiques sont des institutions qui appliquent le concept de partage de profits et de pertes (PPP). Néanmoins, la littérature montre que, dans la pratique, les banques islamiques reposent essentiellement sur des opérations commerciales (non-PPP) et...
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French Abstract: Ce papier montre tout d'abord les spécificités des banques islamiques, qui, par rapport aux banques conventionnelles, font reporter une partie plus importante du risque sur les déposants. Cela permet ensuite de voir en quoi les différents ratios proposés par Bâle III dans...
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In this paper, we reexamine empirically the finance/growth nexus. We argue that financial deepening should not only be assessed with familiar measures of financial activities outputs (e.g. credit volume), but also through its inputs (e.g. the relative number of employees in the financial...
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The objective of this paper is to present the transformations of corporate governance in Asia\r\nsince the crisis of 1997. The analysis deals with 14 Asian countries during the period of 1997-\r\n2006. The important changes include the development of stocks markets, the new role of\r\nbanks and...
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