This paper addresses the macroeconomic impact of international financial integration. I first provide empirical evidence that foreign banking penetration can be associated with a contraction of banking credit, especially in countries with poor credit markets. Second I present a model in which...

The causes of 2007’s financial perturbations and mainly of the subprime crisis are well known at the beginning of 2008. Nevertheless, the specialists pay little attention to capital markets global crisis and to its consequences. In this study, we demonstrate that we are already in the middle...

Stock exchange industry consolidation is at work since many years and has recently accelerated through competition for order flows, agreements and mergers. However, consolidation may not mean that all shocks are transmitted to every place. Therefore, following Forbes and Rigobon (2002) we...

We identify and examine the presence of the long memory in equity returns and more generally in specific transformations of these returns, on both the US and European stock markets. Taking into account the persistence phenomenon, we analyze the effect of the splitting of the sample period on the...

La méthode d’estimation des coûts de transaction de Lesmond, Ogden et Trzcinca (Review of Financial Studies ; 1999) offre une alternative aux travaux basés sur des données intrajournalières. Sur la base des seules rentabilités quotidiennes, la régression d’un modèle Tobit avec...

In this paper, we aim to test the empirical validity of the QTM relationship for the Turkish economy. Using some contemporaneous time series estimation techniques, our estimation results reveal that stationarity characteristics of the velocities of currency in circulation and the broad money...

Based on the methodology adopted by Eichengreen and Luengnaruemitchai (2004), Luengnaruemitchai and Ong (2005), Borensztein and al. (2006), and Eichengreen and al. (2006), this study analyse the development of local bond markets. We show that the development of bond markets is a phenomenon with...

Analyse polémique des instructions administratives sur la finance islamique

Les entrées de capitaux liées aux investissements de portefeuille des non-résidents en titres de la zone euro ont contribué pour près de la moitié à l’accélération de l’agrégat M3 entre septembre 2006 et septembre 2007.

Après deux années consécutives de baisse, la part du capital des sociétés françaises du CAC 40 détenue par les non-résidents s’est inscrite en hausse en 2009 à 42,3 %, après 40,2 % en 2008, revenant à un niveau proche de celui de 2002 (42,5%).