[fre] La banque joue un rôle essentiel dans le développement économique. Son rôle consiste, en particulier, à choisir les firmes qui pourront bénéficier de l’épargne publique. Le secteur bancaire agit donc sur le sentier d’expansion économique par l’intermédiaire de la création...

[fre] La déréglementation financière a alimenté un débat en Europe et aux États-Unis entre les partisans et les opposants de la thèse de la convergence des systèmes financiers. L’idée d’un processus de mutation structurelle faisant une plus large place au Market based system est...

[eng] Changes in banking in the OECD countries : new sources of revenue, new jobs . Deregulation and innovation have unleashed considerable forces that continue to influence the manner in which banks operate as well as their restructuring. All the financial systems seem to slide from a system...

This paper reviews the literature on corporate disclosure. Policymakers often support corporate disclosure but more contrasted views have emerged in the academic literature, showing that even if disclosure can actually benefits to shareholders, it is costly and it may trigger pernicious effects....

A banking spatial competition model is developed to activate the horizontal and vertical parameters of differentiation in a two- dimensional space. Banking competition has become more relevant given the vertical differentiation elements related to some financial assets features. We consider a...

L’émergence de la finance islamique et la place qu’elle occupe au plan international rendent légitime la question de son rôle en tant que véritable intermédiation financière génératrice de croissance. Dans notre étude, nous avons examiné l'implication de la finance islamique en...

This paper aims at assessing the extent to which M&As in European banking sector over the period 1996–2003 result in two simultaneous catching up and convergence processes of consolidating groups. First, do the M&As significantly contribute to the consolidating banks to catch-up with the...

The definition of the bank and its conduct is often founded on a vision borrowed to industrial economy. Models of the banking firm that derive from this vision consider the bank as a producer of credits from deposits or as a producer of deposits from credits. However, following an institutional...