The recent sub-prime debacle has brought ‘innovative' structured credit products such as collateralized debt obligations under severe criticism. The complexity of some structured finance securities and difficulties in understanding their risks has been a common theme. This paper argues that...

In this paper, we investigate the linkage between the subprime asset-backed collateralized debt obligations (CDO) market and Large Complex Financial Institutions (LCFIs). We attempt to account for the dynamics between the ABX index returns and the banks' equity returns through conditioning our...

Asset-backed securitization (ABS) may contribute to generating instability in financial markets both through an 'inside effect' in the banking system – facilitating progressive deterioration of bank assets' quality – and through an ‘outside effect' – favoring credit risk transfer from...

This paper assesses the impact of asset backed ratings on the Merrill Lynch US Asset Backed Securities and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Index (CABs index) over a period January 1998 through to February 2010. In particular, we examine the relationship between ratings changes of the asset...

This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993-2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market. It finds that one cannot reject the hypothesis that investment banks price sovereign default risk well before crises emerge and well before investors do. Investment banks...

Growing experimental evidence suggests that loss aversion plays an important role in asset allocation decisions. We study the asset allocation of a linear loss-averse (LA) investor and compare the optimal LA portfolio to the more traditional optimal mean-variance (MV) and conditional...

This paper examines the performance of seven indexes chosen from the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIM) vis-à-vis their non-Islamic counterparts using a variety of measures such as Sharpe, Treynor, Jensen and Fama’s selectivity, net selectivity and diversification. Second, we examine the...

Cet ouvrage décrit l'organisation d'un marché d'actions et expose les concepts de base de la gestion de portefeuille et des risques : la rentabilité, la volatilité, l'hostilité au risque, les principes et les avantages de la diversification. Il présente les modèles linéaires...

Bourse et gestion de portefeuille est le titre de cet ouvrage. Bourse car les marchés de titres, les mécanismes de rencontre entre l’offre et la demande de titres, ainsi que les principes de fixation des cours, sont précisés principalement dans la première partie. Gestion de portefeuille...

The condensed research article presents some innovative research results on the venture capital optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in the diffusion-type financial systems in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the incomplete information, which are...