In recent years, studying stock markets using multi-agent based models has grow into an important research area due to the fact that this line of attack replicates the nature of the financial market where varied traders with a mixture of expectations and diverse points of rationality network...

The present study's major objective consists in providing an empirical examination of the effect of the information asymmetry variables on the IPOs underpricing on the French market, based on the agency theory. The results have shown that the securities' underpricing can be explained by...

In this paper we identify stock market crises in Tunisia since 1992 using the CMAX method. Our empirical evidence shows that the monetary and financial indicators are considered as explanatory factors signalling the occurrence of these crises. The analysis also highlights some mechanisms that...

The subprime financial crisis has sparked our interest in identifying channels through which US crisis spread across 20 developed and emerging stock markets. Empirical results of GARCH and EGARCH estimated models show a high persistence and asymmetric effect of volatility. Estimation of an...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the brand name’s market shares in Tunisia are affected by generic competition during the pre-reform period of the Tunisian health insurance system following the methodological approach developed by Aronsson et al. (2001). In this study we use...

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of Seniority of the C.E.O in the enterprise and the debt can be analyzed. Multiple securities arise as optimal in the model. This allows for a meaningful analysis of interaction effects between Seniority of the C.E.O in the enterprise and the...

In this paper, our main objective is to verify the ability of inflation targeting to achieve better results concerning inflation, production and interest rate, with a new sample related to some emerging countries. Therefore, we have studied the opportunities stemming from the adoption of...

This paper is intended to explain the formation of entrepreneurial intentions of students from the Faculty of Sfax (Tunisia), after their participation in programs or courses on entrepreneurship. We are interested in understanding programs or courses in entrepreneurship in relation to a number...

In this paper an attempt is made to examine whether the monetary and financial indicators and behaviour of investors increase the occurrence probability of stock market boom and bust in Tunisia. To this end, we employ the ordered logit model on quarterly data during the period from 1999 Q2 to...