We identify and examine the presence of the long memory in equity returns and more generally in specific transformations of these returns, on both the US and European stock markets. Taking into account the persistence phenomenon, we analyze the effect of the splitting of the sample period on the...

This paper investigates the effects of home country banking regulations on the performance of foreign banks in Luxembourg?s financial center. We control for the main regulatory indicators, such as capital requirements, private monitoring, official disciplinary power and restrictions on bank...

Cet article vise à identifier un processus non linéaire par la méthode du noyau. Cette identification nécessite une sélection rigoureuse des coefficients de Markov et le choix de la fenêtre qui détermine le degré de lissage de l’estimateur. This paper aims to identify a nonlinear...

This paper proposes a new nonparametric test for conditional independence, which is based on the comparison of Bernstein copula densities using the Hellinger distance. The test is easy to implement because it does not involve a weighting function in the test statistic, and it can be applied in...

French abstract: Dans le présent papier, nous essayons d’étudier les actions de la bourse régionale de valeur mobilière (BRVM) tout en mettant en relief le modèle de Fama-French et les dérivés du modèle d’évaluation des actifs financiers (MEDAF). Les résultats montrent que le...

We decompose the generalized Lorenz order into a size and a distribution component. The former is represented by stochastic dominance, the latter by the standard Lorenz order. We show that it is always possible, given generalized Lorenz dominance between two distributions F and G, to find...

This paper gives an overview of the way the issue of poverty measurement is typically addressed in economics. After having briefly defined what is meant by poverty in economics, I examine successively the unidimensional approach to poverty based on the income or expenses, and the...