This article applies and compares two asset-pricing models -- the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Fama--French three-factor pricing model -- on the stocks of 28 companies listed on the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) for the period July 2001--December 2008. We find...

Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks’ capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap...

This paper studies the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and financial market development (FMD) using panel data from emerging markets. Most studies of the relationship between FDI and FMD have focused on the role of FMD in the link between FDI and economic growth, with...

This paper develops a continuous-time contingent claims analysis model to study the impact of credit insurance on investment. We find that under shareholders' wealth maximization, the presence of credit insurance yields high investment relative to the level of investment without credit...

In this paper, I study the equilibrium implications when some investors in the economy overweight a subset of stocks within their portfolio. I find that the excess returns for the overweighted stocks are lower, all else being equal. This has strong testable implications for stock returns. In the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of the maturities of credit-enhanced debt contracts on the value of an insurer's loan-guarantee portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes a contingent-claims model and uses as measure of credit insurance risk,...

This paper re-examines the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the...

This paper compares two strategies for replicating a put option used to synthetize a debt guarantee contract. The first strategy, super-replication, while maintaining the portfolio value greater or equal to a target value, minimizes the transaction cost of replicating a debt insurance put option...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>Using a partial equilibrium model, this paper makes a first attempt to provide an explanation based on rational behaviour for the basic big puzzle of why workers have large holdings of the shares of their employer in their defined contribution (DC) pension plans. The...</p>

Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks’ capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap...