[eng] After reminding of the economic justifications of bank regulation, this paper pays particular attention to one of the instruments of this regulation, the deposit insurance. While offering a protection to the depositors, the deposit insurance would allow to prevent bank runs and thus reduce...

[fre] Le recours à la théorie des options permet de déterminer une formule reliant les caractéristiques des contrats d’assurance-vie (maturité, rendement garanti et taux de participation aux bénéfices) au bilan des assureurs (risque de l’actif, levier d’endettement). Une simulation...

Using a Barra-type factor model, we have attempted to determine whether it is possible to beat the benchmark by taking advantage of anomalies established in the financial empirical literature. More specifically we have built an equity premium model based on three sets of factors (accounting...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Bank of Japan's official interventions on the JPY/USD parity during the period 1992-2004. The novelty of our approach is to combine two recent advances of the empirical literature on foreign exchange interventions: (i) drawing on...

[eng] The purpose of this research is twofold : firstly, it presents the economic justifications for deposit insurance schemes as well as the features of such schemes identified as « optimal » in the literature in order to avoid moral hazard and adverse selection phenomena. Thus, according to...

This study extends the traditional set of central bank's interventions to include official announcements in order to provide empirical evidence on two pivotal questions: (i) are FX authorities able to influence market expectations with different instruments? (ii) how should interventions be...