(VF)Les assureurs qui affirment ne pas vouloir se diversifier dans les métiers de la banque se raréfient ; la majorité des grands assureurs européens se sont lancés dans la banque, et de nouvelles expériences sont en train d’être menées. Ce travail est l’un des premiers à se...

Empirical research with a purpose of identifying a firm's competencies is quite rare even if results allow for a highlighting of the roots of competitive advantage, discussion of identification methodologies of competencies and, sometimes, questioning of the possibility of such identification....

There has been a constant evolution of the banking business portofolio in the past two decades, due to economic globalization, deregulation and the advert of new technologies. This trend is still the same today and is even more marked by the emergence of production businesses, the latter been...

There has been a constant evolution over the past two decades, in the banking business portfolio, due to economic globalization, deregulation and the advent of new technologies. This trend continues today and is even more marked by the emergence of production businesses, the latter being...

L’objectif de l’article est de vérifier empiriquement les effets des mécanismes internes et externes de gouvernance sur la performance des IMF de l’Afrique sub-saharienne. L’économétrie des données de panel nous permet d’étudier un échantillon composé de 64 IMF africaines entre...

The question this article seeks to answer is whether the relationship between legal status and performance is influenced by the geographical area to which the MFI belongs, as postulated in some work. To this end, we study a sample of 202 MFIs in the period 2001 to 2006. The results show that in...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between risk management and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The devices tested are the choices of credit contracts and prudential regulation. Performance is understood in three dimensions. It refers to profitability,...