In recent years, a growing literature has claimed that the market microstructure is sufficient to generate the so-called stylized facts without any reference to the behaviour of market players. Indeed, qualitative stylized-facts can be generated with zero-intelligence traders (ZITs) but we...

Cet article propose d'analyser les conséquences de la mise en place de Solvency 2 sur le comportement de placement des compagnies d'assurance et, ce faisant, sur le financement de l'économie. Notre analyse revient sur l'opposition potentielle entre l'objectif de stabilité et celui...

In the supply chain of investment services, trading activity is at the heart of several breakthroughs resulting from the rise of new forms of competition and new regulations. The Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) constitutes a major revolution in the organization of the trading...

This paper investigates if a firm's ethical issues, in conjunction with its governance, affect its standing within financial markets. A firm's ethical reputation arises from its involvement in ethical violations and incidents while a comprehensive index proxies for governance. We assess a firm's...

We build an agent-based model to study how the interplay between low- and high- frequency trading affects asset price dynamics. Our main goal is to investigate whether high-frequency trading exacerbates market volatility and generates flash crashes. In the model, low-frequency agents adopt...

Alors qu'une part importante de la littérature sur les entreprises à internationalisation rapide et précoce (EIRP) souligne l'importance des réseaux sociaux dans leur dynamique, très peu nous est dit sur les compétences relationnelles mobilisées par ces entreprises pour initier,...

The paper purports to stress how the two major contributions of Bacharach: "Variable Frame Theory" (VFT) and "Team Reasoning" (TR) improve Standard Non-Cooperative Game Theory in some relevant aspects which I point out. The aims are to show: (i) how Bacharach respectively justifies coordination...

This paper applies a social learning model to the optimal consumption rule of Allen & Carroll (2001), and delivers convincing convergence dynamics towards the optimal rule. These findings constitute a significant improvement regarding previous results in the literature, both in terms of speed of...