Using a large international sample of 348,899 year-firm observations covering 352 Islamic banks and 30,572 conventional banks in 213 countries over the 1999-2013 period, we estimate the deposit insurance premiums of Islamic banks and conventional banks. We find that the premiums for publicly...

This paper re-examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the UNDP's HDI as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the positive and strongly significant relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty...

International aid effectiveness has recently been significantly questioned in the development literature with regard to the large amount of aid received by developing countries to finance development projects and the mixed results achieved. However, assessment of development projects is not an...

We study investment restrictions in a dynamic, two-country, two-good general equilibrium model. The issues that we are concerned with are the impact of the investment restrictions on the cost of capital, the asset returns' volatilities, the international stock market co-movement, and the optimal...

An important puzzle in credit markets is why some firms use the services of financial advisors (FA) rather than undertake those tasks themselves. This paper examines, using theory and empirical evidence, whether the presence and the reputation of FA can act as a credible signal of project...

This paper extends extant valuation models of interest rate swaps (IRS) with counterparty credit risk by accounting for wrong-way risk and OIS discounting. The proposed model extends Brigo and Pallavicini's (2007) and Ruiz et al.'s (2013) models, by capturing wrong-way risk in the CVA...

We propose a framework a la Davis et al. (1993) and Whalley and Wilmott (1997) to study dynamic hedging strategies on portfolios of financial guarantees in the presence of transaction costs. We contrast four dynamic hedging strategies including a utility-based dynamic hedging strategy, in...

French Abstract: Le système financier islamique (SFI) repose essentiellement sur le principe de non pratique de l'intérêt (riba) jugé usurier par les lois islamiques et prône le partage des risques et profits/pertes. Au cours des dernières années, les actifs financiers islamiques ont...

In this paper, we develop a methodology to model the risk of losses resulting from a natural disaster in which the intensity parameter of the non-homogeneous Poisson process has an upward trend and a seasonal component. We apply this model to losses due to floods in the Financial Assistance...

This paper presents an approach to computing economic capital and to pricing bond insurance portfolios. Since bond insurers face losses that are highly correlated and dependent on the business cycles, we enhance the structural approach of Merton (1974) by incorporating business cycles using a...