This paper provides an overview on ownership structure and voting power in France, both in terms of institutional and legal framework and of quantitative analysis. If cross share holdings in large groups were a characteristic of the French model, called 'financial core', and had been extended in...

[eng] Trade credit and credit risk measures . The aim of this study is to derive different measures of the credit risk, from the observation of accounts receivable, account payable and trade credit during the 1990-1994 period. The trade credit risk has grown with the slowing down of the economy,...