French Abstract:Cet article propose trois modèles de prévision de la détresse financière basés sur les réseaux de neurones et les algorithmes génétiques. La situation financière d'une entreprise est appréciée par les probabilités risque neutre de défaut déterminées par le modèle...

This paper examines the relation between the external financing cost and the choice of the investment timing. Contrary to Lyandres (2007), this paper not only takes in consideration the variation of the investment but also the variation of its payoff. Results show that firms don't present the...

This study examines the association between different institutional investors’ ownership and earnings management practice using a neural networks approach. It investigates this relationship for a sample of 121 US firms. We examine also the effect of institutional ownership on the level of...

This paper applies the mean-variance portfolio optimization (PO) approach and the stochastic dominance (SD) test to examine preferences for international diversification versus domestic diversification from American investors' viewpoints. Our PO results imply that the domestic diversification...

Purpose: This study aims to shed more light on the relationship between probability of default, investment horizons and rating classes to make decision-making processes more efficient. Design/methodology/approach: Based on credit default swaps (CDS) spreads, a methodology is implemented to...