We use several measures to compare the performance of a large set of Dow Jones Islamic indexes to selected benchmarks. We test the performance over the whole period and then focus on extreme events. We identify extreme events as the 100 lowest and the 100 highest conventional World Indexes daily...

We use several measures to compare the performance of a large set of Dow Jones Islamic indexes to selected benchmarks. We test the performance over the whole period and then focus on extreme events. We identify extreme events as the 100 lowest and the 100 highest conventional World Indexes daily...

Cet ouvrage composé de 2/3 d'applications (QCM, questions de réflexion, entraînement, solutions) et d'1/3 de révision présente les bases de l'enseignement de finance d'entreprise et les applications indispensables à la réussite dans cette matière. Il permet aux étudiants de faire le...

Cet ouvrage présente les bases de l'enseignement de la finance d'entreprise ainsi que les applications indispensables à la réussite dans cette discipline.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of CEO compensation for sample of the US firms. It emphasizes the presence of executive compensation persistence and the importance of CEO power besides performance while setting CEO pay. Design/methodology/approach: The...

This paper examines whether the use of derivatives improves firms' information environment, which is a relatively under-investigated research area in risk management literature. Using a sample of French non-financial listed firms, we show that firms which use derivatives enjoy high levels of...