There are few things more constant in life than the rise and fall of financial markets. When markets crash, however, we are forced to restore them while learning from our mistakes. In the wake of the recent subprime mortgage crisis, Congress has drastically but deservedly overhauled the...

Do credit ratings affect the information content of corporate disclosure? Using novel data on rating analysts to obtain exogenous variation in rating information, we find that greater uncertainty in credit ratings increases the quality of information disclosed by the firm. This is consistent...

The authors perform an original research on the fundamentals of winning virtuous strategies creation toward the leveraged buyout transactions implementation during the private equity investment in the conditions of the resonant absorption of discrete information in the diffusion-type financial...

Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête réalisée en 2002, auprès d'un échantillon d'entreprises françaises cotées à la Bourse de Paris, et portant sur leur comportement face aux risques financiers. Le questionnaire adressé aux entreprises permet d'apporter des réponses à...