En 2013, la détention par les non-résidents des actions des sociétés françaises du CAC 40 a moins augmenté que les deux années précédentes. À la fin de l’année cependant, plus de la moitié d’entre elles étaient majoritairement détenues par des non-résidents.

Interest rate derivatives are among the most actively traded financial instruments in the main currency areas. With values of positions reacting immediately to the underlying index of daily interbank rates, manipulation has become an increasing challenge for the operational implementation of...

To stimulate and finance investment in Europe the three “policy stars” of Europe need to be aligned: the Capital Markets Union initiative, the €315bn Investment Plan, and the ECB’s €1,100bn asset purchase scheme. They jointly face a unique set of issues. First, the resilience and the...

This article reports on a round table panel discussion entitled « Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Future of the Eurozone », which took place at the 29th International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance, at the University of Nantes, June 28-29, 2012. The panel was chaired by Andy Mullineux...

Some five years after the severe recession of 2009, private sector investment in Europe is still dangerously sluggish. And public sector investment has been cut, reinforcing the downward trend seen over the past thirty years. In this paper, we discuss the complementarity between private and...

The fixed rate tender is one of the main procedures used by central banks in the implementation of their monetary policies. While academic research has largely dismissed the procedure owing to its tendency to encourage overbidding, central banks such as the ECB and the Bank of England have...

En Europe, cinq ans après la récession de 2009, la faiblesse persistante de l’investissement est un sujet majeur de préoccupation. Dans quelle mesure une relance de l’investissement public pourrait-elle contribuer à re-dynamiser l’investissement privé et à faire repartir la...

This article derives a central bank's optimal liquidity supply towards a money market with an unrestricted lending facility. We show that when the effect of liquidity on market rates is not too small, and the monetary authority is concerned with both interest rates and liquidity conditions, then...

We model the interbank market for overnight credit with heterogeneous banks and asymmetric information. An unsophisticated bank just trades to compensate its liquidity imbalance, while a sophisticated bank will exploit its private information about the liquidity situation in the market. It is...