The volume of transaction varies according to several factors. Of a point of view of the behavioural finance, a high level of this last can be assigned to a phenomenon of overconfidence or a disposition effect. This paper studies these two phenomena as well as the one of the asymmetry of the...

On the basis of a sample of Tunisian non-financial listed companies between 2001-2014, following the multiple regression technique, our results allow us to show that the determinants of the financial structure can have a negative relationship proxies (the level of debt) or positive proxies (the...

In an attempt to examine the influence of the leader's social relation on dividend distribution policy in a context of listed non-financial Tunisian firms, a multiple linear model is constructed in a period stretching between 2001-2014.Thus, our empirical study is based on the estimation of a...

In a context of the Tunisian non-financial listed companies between 2001-2014. Our results show a positive effect between the characteristics of the board of directors proxies (the size of the board of directors, the remuneration of the leader and the duration of the meetings of the board of...

The objective of this paper is to study the effect of the characteristics of the board of directors on the policy of dividend distribution in a context of the Tunisian non-financial listed companies between 2001- 2014. Thus, our empirical study is based on the estimation of a single model by...

When rates of return on bonds are computed over extremely short holding periods, the ex post cross-sectional relationship between realized return and risk is linear. It is therefore possible, at any time, to extrapolate the cross-sectional relationship to a zero risk level, and thus to determine...

The aim of this research is to study the determinants of the use of direct versus intermediated solutions on the French housing market. The theoretical perspective of perceived transaction costs provides a useful framework for understanding the existence of a specific mode of transaction in real...

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in...

Relying on conditional entropy and on the notion of information transfer, we investigate price relationships in the most important commodity futures market: the American crude oil market. We first show that the information shared by futures contracts with different delivery dates increases...