Jacques Léon Rueff (1896-1978) is one of the great French economists of the twentieth century, yet today it is largely unknown. The recurrence of financial crises around the world is an opportunity to rediscover the originality of thought of that great liberal writer who was an advisor to...

Affirmative action arose from the fight for the civic rights in the 1960s.. However the ethnic quota in the American higher education were questioned in 1978 (Bakke) by a decision of the Supreme Court which incited universities to promote diversity, but w

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 2012 to the European Union. The paper questions the legitimacy of such an award considering that it does not fit in the context defined by Alfred Nobel. It is a perversion: instead of being the reward of merit, the

This paper examines the behavioural finance aspects of developed countries which invest significantly in R&D, while trying to benefit from this investment, within the framework of the so called ‘creative intelligence’. At this level, creative intellige

We contribute to the finance literature in two main ways. First, we present a theoretical capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to price assets in different market structures. Second, we use our model to analyze whether when markets are partially segmented

Similar to the Security Exchange Commission (SEC), the French Stock Exchange Authority (AMF) issued new board requirements to enhance manager control after financial scandals (2008-2009). This study investigates the relation between corporate governance and CEO pay levels after taking into...

This paper assesses the impact of oil prices on economic growth of the four major OPEC countries (United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela) over the period spanning from 03/09/2000 to 03/12/2010. We aim at complementing the results from existing analyses (mainly focused on...

This paper attempts to evaluate the time-varying integration of Japanese stock market from a regional perspective, by using a conditional version of the international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM) allowing for dynamic changes in the degree of market integration, regional market risk price,...

This paper examines the link between research and development (R&D) and idiosyncratic volatility for a panel of large French quoted companies. We investigate whether the intensity of R&D investment makes the firm’s stocks riskier. We suggest that R&D activities generate information asymmetry...

This paper examines changes in profitability of 146 CVC listed on the French market. The results show disappointing post-IPO profitability. The decline in performance ranges from 9.5% to 32% over a two-year period following the launch on the stock exchange. It also appears that the decline in...