The Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) and the Banque de France have organised their second labour market conference, bringing together academics and representatives of international organisations and central banks. Discussions focused on the linkages between the housing and labour...

La Banque de France a organisé un atelier de recherche intitulé « Trading algorithmique et trading haute fréquence », le 8 novembre 2013, afin de comprendre les conséquences de l’automatisation des échanges boursiers et de mettre en lumière les défis que cette révolution...

Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, these relationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....

We propose a new approach to measuring long-run inflation risk, the inflation risk premium, and inflation expectations for the UK over the period 1985–2012. By adding long-term bond futures to the information set of inflation-indexed and nominal bonds, inflation risk is measured as an...

Past studies suggest that the Islamic finance system is only weakly linked or even decoupled from conventional markets. If this statement is true, then this system may provide a cushion against potential losses resulting from probable future financial crises. In this article, we make use of...

In 1998, Taiwan changed the computation of dividend income for domestic investors. This tax reform offers a natural experiment to explore the relation between taxes and investor behavior around ex-dividend days. We find that the 1998 tax reform reduces the ex-date return and changes the identity...

Short sellers are routinely blamed for destabilizing stock markets by exacerbating deviations from fundamental values. In response, regulators periodically impose short sale constraints aimed at preventing excessive stock market declines. One explanation is that policy makers regard short...

The end result of major sporting events has been shown to affect next-day stock returns through shifts in investor mood. By studying the soccer matches that led to the elimination of France and Italy from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we show that mood-related pricing effects can materialize as...

The end result of major sporting events has been shown to affect next-day stock returns through shifts in investor mood. By studying the soccer matches that led to the elimination of France and Italy from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we show that mood-related pricing effects can materialize as...

Resumen: La teoría de precios por arbitraje establece que el retorno esperado de un portafolio de activos está relacionado con factores que caracterizan la economía y se puede asociar a variables macroeconómicas. En este estudio se realiza una contrastación empírica de la teoría de...