This paper studies the French corporate bonds market during the 19th century. Despite its importance, the performance of the corporate bonds quoted on the Paris Bourse has never been studied. In order to analyse this market, a price index of the corporate bond market has been created by using...

This paper aims to advance empirical knowledge of stock-bonds comovements thanks to the specific context of the pre-1914 French market. This period allows the measurement of the conditional correlation without any inflation thanks to the Gold standard regime. A multivariate Dynamic Conditional...

Using some recently developed Paris Bourse 19th century price indexes; we study the stock-bond monthly return comovement for a 76 years long period. The comovements of stocks not only with government bonds, like majority of studies on this subject, but also with corporate bonds have been...

The paper offers an empirical analysis of the effects of sanctions decided by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) on the reputation of firms in France. Using an event study, we intend to show the impact of three events on the stock prices: opening of an investigation by the AMF; issuance of a...

Theoretical and historical experience suggests a financial centre may either include a single, consolidated and loosely regulated stock exchange attracting all intermediaries and actors, or a variety of exchanges going from strictly regulated to completely unregulated and adapted to the needs of...