The last five years have witnessed a great momentum in the research into measures of financial risk. After many years of ad-hoc and non-consistent measures, now the problem is finally well formulated and some useful and very user-friendly solutions have been proposed. These new measures of risk...

Réflexion sur le rôle des hedge funds et du private equity et sur la problématique posée par le développement de ces nouvelles formes organisationnelles.

Acteurs incontournables des marchés financiers, les hedge funds demeurent mal connus. Qui sont-ils ? Quelles sont leur techniques de gestion ? Qu'offrent-ils de différent en termes de performance et de risque ?

In this study, we test the size and the book to market effects in explaining stock returns with co-skewness and co-kurtosis on the French Stock Market over July 1976 to June 2001 period. Results of time series regressions of monthly portfolio returns are consistent with the Fama and French...