Whether historical cost or fair value are referred to as valuation methods, it will be easier to be informed rapidly about the financial difficulties some banks are likely to be faced to. Solvency, liquidity and rate risks won’t be noticed the same way.

Dès le 1er janvier 2005, les normes comptables applicables aux établissements de crédit cotés membres de l'Union européenne seront celles produites par l'IASB. Ces normes accordent une part croissante à la juste valeur. L'objectif de ce papier consiste en l'étude des caractéristiques de...

Le recours au coût historique et à des techniques d'allègement des bilans comme la titrisation permettent aux banques de disposer d'une marge de manoeuvre en matière comptable. Le développement des marchés financiers et l'orientation actuelle de l'IASC et du FASB en faveur de la juste...

L'existence d'une réglementation prudentielle assise sur les fonds propres influence les choix comptables des banques. Les positions restrictives de l'IASC sur les montages déconsolidants et le recours croissant au marché pour évaluer les actifs sont susceptibles de remettre en cause leurs...

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...

This paper studies the impact of earthquakes on farm business assets in rural Indonesia. Using a panel fixed effects model, we evaluate if the negative consequences of earthquakes extend beyond the immediate event into the medium and long-term. Our results suggest that rural households were able...