eSports, as a competitive activity related to the video game industry has attracted significant attention in recent years. Using co-citation analysis of references and authors, bibliographic coupling of sources, and author keyword co-occurrence analysis, this paper aims to carry out a...

(VF)Les assureurs qui affirment ne pas vouloir se diversifier dans les métiers de la banque se raréfient ; la majorité des grands assureurs européens se sont lancés dans la banque, et de nouvelles expériences sont en train d’être menées. Ce travail est l’un des premiers à se...

In the last ten years, operational risk has received a considerable attention from banking supervisors, practitioners and researchers alike. While the majority of studies have been devoted to derive the appropriate formulas for quantifying this risk (i.e. under pillar I of Basel II), less has...

We examine, in this paper, whether or not subprime mortgage crisis-related write-downs are mainly due to banks involvement in credit risk transfer market (CRT). Using data from 288 European banks over the period 2004-2007, we find that, for different types of CRT involvement, different patterns...

We provide empirical evidence on the determinants of the number of bank lenders using a sample of more than 3000 loans to firms from 24 European countries. Our testable hypotheses are built upon different theoretical frameworks drawn from the existing literature, referring to firm...

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of creditor concentration in the use of bank loans by firms in a European cross-country framework. We analyze the influence of loan and borrower characteristics but also banking market structure and legal enforcement...

In this paper, we explore the mechanisms employed by the French judges while discharging personal debts in exchange for liquidation of debtors' assets. Our empirical results highlight the determinants of judicial selection between debtors whose debts are wiped out and those who have to reimburse...

We empirically investigate the determinants of lenders concentration providing bank loans to European borrowers. We analyze the influence of loan and borrower characteristics but also legal enforcement variables that are expected to influence the financial and strategic decisions related to bank...

This paper tests various theories relative to the choice of the number of bank relationships on a french sample of 244 small and medium business. We formulate hypotheses relative to firm?'s characteristics and to the impact of this choice on collateral requirements, cost and exposure to bank...