We compare the performance of various hedging strategies for index collateralized debt obligation (CDO) tranches across a variety of models and hedging methods during the recent credit crisis. Our empirical analysis shows evidence for market incompleteness: a large proportion of risk in the CDO...

Banking firms exhibit unique business and financial dynamics that are priced in their stock returns. This paper compares traditional empirical asset pricing models on portfolio of banking firms from fourteen European countries and proposes a banking specific risk factor. We compared a single...

The paper assesses the implementation of income contingent loan schemes for higher education (ICL) in an institutional context characterized by two main features: (i) a former tuition free system and (ii) a great heterogeneity in tertiary education's diplomas quality and cost, which impacts the...

The development of various forms of public-private partnerships for the financing, building and operating of public infrastructure has not fundamentally altered the economic calculations involved. This chapter examines to what extent it is necessary, however, to change the way that government...

Cet article analyse quelles modalités de concurrence dans l'assurance santé peuvent améliorer l'efficience du système tout en satisfaisant à certains impératifs d'équité. L'analyse s'appuie sur des arguments théoriques et quelques expériences étrangères. La régulation des relations...

Cet article a pour objet de montrer que la tradition associant l'utilitarisme de Bentham au libéralisme économique conduit à négliger la singularité d'une approche dans laquelle la sphère économique ne peut être pensée comme autonome par rapport à la législation. L'accent est placé...

We focus on two-player, two-armed bandit games. We analyze the joint effect on the informational spillovers between the players of the correlation between the risky arms, and the extent to which one's experimentation results are publicly disclosed. Our main results only depend on whethert...

This paper applies He's homotopy perturbation method to compute a large variety of integral transforms. As illustration, the paper gives special attention to the Esscher transform, the Fourier transform, the Hankel transform, the Mellin transform, the Stieljes transform and some applications.

A segmentation strategy to price different groups of American standard Put options with different methods is presented and discussed. The method, which exploits the properties of the odd waves of the BI adjusted evaluations introduced by Gaudenzi and Pressacco, proves to be very efficient in...

La globalisation et la métropolisation des économies modernes induisent des stratégies de localisation des activités intensives en connaissance en faveur des métropoles et démultiplient les échanges commerciaux et d'information entre les métropoles. Nous étudions, dans ce contexte, le...