This article is centred on the volatility of commodity prices. It presents the instruments offering a protection against volatility and shows how they can be employed. The first section exposes these derivative instruments. It distinguishes them in step with the need they respond and the way...

The aim of this work consists of a panoramic study of trading halts (trading reservations and suspensions) in the different world stock Exchanges. We draw up an inventory of the regulatory environments. We then compare the practices on the international financial markets. We show that the...

Islamic and conventional investment funds have the same purpose. However, unlike conventional funds, Islamic funds offer different investment contracts and have to invest in accordance with a set of selection rules. This dissertation focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis...

Policy reforms aimed at boosting long-run growth often have side effects – positive or negative – on an economy’s vulnerability to shocks and their propagation. Macroeconomic shocks as severe and protracted as those since 2007 warrant a reconsideration of the role growth-promoting policies...

Policy reforms aimed at boosting long-run growth often have side effects – positive or negative – on an economy’s vulnerability to shocks and their propagation. Macroeconomic shocks as severe and protracted as those since 2007 warrant a reconsideration of the role growth-promoting policies...

The decline in macroeconomic volatility from the 1980s to the onset of the Great Recession did not, in general, translate into more microeconomic stability. While microeconomic volatility can reflect growth-generating processes, such as creative destruction and re-allocation of resources,...

The crisis revealed the need for a strategic review of the existing social protection system in Estonia. Extreme income fluctuations on one side and low social benefits on the other side exposed fragile groups in the population to a significant poverty risk. The government has recently...

Le rapport fait le point sur les interactions entre la volatilité des prix du pétrole et les stratégies des acteurs financiers. Il présente également les réflexions et actions en cours au niveau international pour améliorer le fonctionnement des marchés pétroliers. Et au final, il...

L'envolée récente des prix des commodités depuis fin 2010ouvre à nouveau le débat de la mesure desconséquences de l'inflation alimentaire sur la pauvreté.Cet article offre un éclairage méthodologique grâce à une revue critique de la littérature et propose de nouvelles pistes de...

Alors que l’utilité de l’instauration d’une taxe Tobin fait l’objet de débats intenses, les travaux scientifiques qui y sont consacrés sont globalement méconnus. Le présent article en rend compte en se focalisant sur ceux d’entre eux qui font usage de la théorie des jeux er de...