This paper proposes a new method for determining the upper bound of any investment strategy's maximum profit, applied in a given time window [0, T]. This upper bound is defined once all the prices are known at time T and therefore represents the ex-post maximum efficiency of any investment...

The purpose of this document is to review a variety of liquidity measures actively used by academics and practitioners, and to stress their advantages and limits. We focus on bond market that is an Over-The-Counter (OTC) dealer market. In a typical OTC transaction, a buyer or seller contacts an...

The promotion of both market fairness and efficiency has long been a goal of securities market regulators worldwide. Accelerated digital disruption and abusive trading behaviors, such as the GameStop mania, prompt regulatory changes. It is unclear how this "democratization" of trading power...

In the supply chain of investment services, trading activity is at the heart of several breakthroughs resulting from the rise of new forms of competition and new regulations. The Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) constitutes a major revolution in the organization of the trading...

Cet article propose d'analyser les conséquences de la mise en place de Solvency 2 sur le comportement de placement des compagnies d'assurance et, ce faisant, sur le financement de l'économie. Notre analyse revient sur l'opposition potentielle entre l'objectif de stabilité et celui...

This paper analyzes the capacity of mobile-payment solutions to improve financial inclusion in developing countries. It elaborates from rural East African countries experiences where mobile payment services have developed rapidly. With a simple dynamic model which rationalizes traders' adoption...

Space has only recently become a terrain of strenuous economic research. With the New Economic Geography (NEG) integrating into mainstream, many spatial subjects, including territorial, or regional, competitiveness are being increasingly inquired. In line with Krugman (2003), we argue that it is...

Le plan carrière de 2008 a permis une revalorisation des salaires des Maîtres de Conférences nouvellement recrutés ainsi qu'une hausse significative des taux de promotion, ce qui s'est traduit par un nouvel écrasement des hiérarchies salariales pour les enseignants-chercheurs. La...

This paper draws on the results of World Bank Enterprise surveys to investigate the relation between financials constraints and innovation performance for a sample of firms in 9 African nations: Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana and the...