This paper investigates whether the ownership structure influences the risk taking of the Tunisian quoted banks over the period 2000-2008. Overall, it can be gathered from the results of this study that the effect of ownership structure on bank risk taking varies according to the type of risk....

The aim of this paper is to construct simulations of indexes of the banking governance efficiency. We distinguish the indexes of shareholder governance from the indexes of stakeholder governance. Data are based on a sample of Tunisian quoted banks over the period 2001–2005. Our results...

Most recent studies are based on benchmarking analysis allowing the measure of company efficiency relatively to a reference performance. Benchmarking is a helpful tool to analyze and promote efficiency in insurance companies. The fast development of X-efficiency notion makes traditional...

In recent years the financial markets known a rapid development and become more and more complex. So, many regulatory requirements, focused on banks as well as insurance sector, have been developed. These regulatory are concentrated essentially on business risk control and required capital to...

An optimal asset allocation is crucial for non-life insurance companies. The most previous studies focused on this topic use a mono-objective technique optimization. This technique usually allows the maximization of shareholders’ expected utility. As non-life insurance company is a complex...

This study tries to extend previous works on behavioral corporate finance by examining the interaction between investment cash flow sensitivity and various CEO characteristics in either the existence or inexistence of managerial optimism. Using a Q-investment model and departing from a sample of...

Investment cash flow sensitivity constitutes one important block of the corporate financial literature. While it is well documented in standard corporate finance, it is still young under behavioral corporate finance. In this paper, we test the investment cash flow sensitivity among panel data of...

The topic of interest in this study is herding behaviour in the stock market. We propose a new herd measure which is based on the cross-sectional dispersion of beta to detect the prevalence of herding phenomenon towards the market. The application of our new measure to TUNEDEX and BVMT indexes-...

In this study, we test whether the overconfidence bias explains several stylized market anomalous, including a short-term continuation (momentum), a long-term reversal in stock returns, high levels of trading volume and excessive volatility. Using data of French stocks market, we find empirical...

La dématérialisation croissante de la politique d'investissement des entreprises justifie la nécessité de mesurer ses différentes manifestations. Cet article se propose d'étudier les déterminants des choix de comptabilisation des investissements immatériels par les firmes tunisiennes....