Les prix des logements ont sensiblement augmenté au Canada au cours des dix dernières années, portant la dette des ménages et la construction de logements à des points hauts historiques. Bien que le durcissement de la politique macroprudentielle ait ralenti la croissance des emprunts des...

Already evoked in the years 1970 by American economists such as Sargen, the concept of country risk returned to the front of the economic scene following the financial crises of the years 1990.The concept of country risk is not new insofar as it is inherent in the swaps between two economic...

Les comportements d’épargne et d’allocation d’actifs des ménages sont des éléments clés pour le financement de l’économie. La récente crise financière et plus structurellement le vieillissement des populations conduisent les banques centrales, le régulateur et les acteurs des...

Using a data set which is largely free of survivorship bias, this study analyzes the persistence of the performance of French equity funds from 1993 to 2002. The main empirical result is that persistence, although detected in some years, appears to be a quite unstable phenomenon, strongly...

The aim of this paper is to build and estimate a macroeconomic model of credit risk for the French manufacturing sector. This model is based on Wilson's CreditPortfolioView model (1997a, 1997b); it enables us to simulate loss distributions for a credit portfolio for several macroeconomic...

We develop a geographical-based vibrancy index using important location characteristics that measure local economic health. We show that local vibrancy is associated with future firm outcomes, including investment, leverage, profitability, and firm value. More vibrant firms are located in...

French Abstract: L’impact investing s’est progressivement développé en réponse à une prise de conscience collective engendrée par les mutations économiques et sociales qui ont marqué le XXème siècle. Le marché a encore du mal à se structurer, en partie en raison du flou qui règne...

For more than 40 years, in France, compensation for damage caused to crops by climatic hazards is essentially a public policy, only losses due to hail which are the subject of widespread insurance. The existence of this public compensation system and the technical obstacles for the introduction...

Life expectancy at birth in Algeria keeps improving significantly at least since the independence in 1962. This longevity combined with the new constraints of the Algerian life annuity market reduces the usefulness of static life tables and accentuates the need to use prospective life tables as...