In this paper, we attempt to examine the speculative efficiency hypothesis on CO2 emission allowance prices negotiated on Bluenext, by testing the relationship between futures and spot prices from the Fama (1970) framework. This approach is based on the joint hypothesis of no risk premium and...

Debt may help to manage type II corporate agency conflicts because it is easier for controlling shareholders to modify the leverage ratio than to modify their share of capital. A sample of 112 firms listed on the French stock market over the period 1998-2009 is empirically tested. It supports an...

The main objective in this article is to shed new light on the term structure of subjective time preference rates using a conditional Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model. Following Samuelson's (1937)'s suggestion, we analyze the concept of “time consistency”. More precisely, we challenge...