Pour une entreprise, le maintien d’une croissance soutenue pendant une longue période est délicat. Il suppose, outre des conditions de marché favorables, un pilotage du rythme de développement adapté aux contraintes financières.

French Abstract: Depuis les travaux précurseurs de Watts et Zimmerman (1979) et DeAngelo (1981), la qualité de l'audit demeure un concept difficile à opérationnaliser et l'évaluation de ses conséquences économiques reste présente. Dans un contexte d'audit conjoint, cette recherche...

Our purpose is to explore an alternative way to give new foundations to the theory of corporate finance and governance. The definition we give of corporate finance considers capital-budgeting as central. The shortcomings of the contract theory of the firm result in proposing new foundations to...

(VF)Cet article analyse la restructuration de l'industrie européenne aérospatiale et de défense via la création d’EADS, société possédant 80 % d'Airbus. Lancé par une impulsion politique des gouvernements européens, ce processus a abouti à la création d’un acteur industriel de...

We derive several popular systemic risk measures in a common framework and show that they can be expressed as transformations of market risk measures (e.g., beta). We also derive conditions under which the different measures lead to similar rankings of systemically important financial...

We review the extensive literature on systemic risk and connect it to the current regulatory debate. While we take stock of the achievements of this rapidly growing field, we identify a gap between two main approaches. The first one studies different sources of systemic risk in isolation, uses...

We study how product market interactions affect investment. We use reductions of import tariffs to examine how incumbents modify investment when the threat of rivals' entry intensifies. Incumbents reduce investment by 7.2% in response to higher entry threat. Consistent with a strategic behavior,...

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on Congressional committees with jurisdictional authority over the firms' industries and politicians who join those committees innovate more. We employ instrumental variables estimation and a...

We study whether R&D-intensive firms are more resilient to trade shocks. We correct for the endogeneity of R&D using tax-induced changes to R&D cost. While rising imports from China lead to slower sales growth and lower profitability, these effects are significantly smaller for firms with a...

We study how managers respond to hurricane events when their firms are located in the neighborhood of the disaster area. We find that the sudden shock to the perceived liquidity risk leads managers to increase corporate cash holdings and to express more concerns about hurricane risk in...