The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Bank of Japan's official interventions on the JPY/USD parity during the period 1992–2004. The novelty of our approach is to combine two recent advances of the empirical literature on foreign exchange interventions: (i) drawing on...

Acteurs incontournables des marchés financiers, les hedge funds demeurent mal connus. Qui sont-ils ? Quelles sont leur techniques de gestion ? Qu'offrent-ils de différent en termes de performance et de risque ?

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Bank of Japan's official interventions on the JPY/USD parity during the period 1992–2004. The novelty of our approach is to combine two recent advances of the empirical literature on foreign exchange interventions: (i) drawing on...

Hedge fund replication based on factor models is encountering growing interest. In this paper, we investigate the implications of substituting standard rolling windows regressions, which appear ad-hoc, with more effcient methodologies like the Kalman flter. We show that the copycats constructed...

Minimum variance and equally-weighted portfolios have recently prompted great interest both from academic researchers and market practitioners, as their construction does not rely on expected average returns and is therefore assumed to be robust. In this paper, we consider a related approach,...

This study extends the traditional set of central bank's interventions to include official announcements in order to provide empirical evidence on two pivotal questions: (i) are FX authorities able to influence market expectations with different instruments? (ii) how should interventions be...

Nous présentons et testons diverses mesures courantes de l'inclinaison des investisseurs vis-à-vis des produits risqués : les spreads high yield et émergent, les volatilités implicites sur les marchés boursiers et des changes, la corrélation taux d'intérêt/bourse, et celle entre...

Après avoir comparé les caractéristiques des marchés obligataires à haut rendement (high yield) en euro et en dollar, nous mettons en évidence : a) que ce type d'actifs s'insère favorablement dans une stratégie d'allocation optimale de portefeuille grâce à un profil rendement/risque...