Fraud and misconduct in the financial market became in the recent years a key issue of regulation in the context of financial crisis. The paper investigates the French financial supervisor (Autorité des marchés financiers) sanctions policy and practices. It argues that the Autorité des...

The paper offers an empirical analysis of the effects of sanctions decided by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) on the reputation of firms in France. Using an event study, we intend to show the impact of three events on the stock prices: opening of an investigation by the AMF; issuance of a...

Cette étude examine l’impact de la divulgation publique des honoraires d’audit, exigée par COB, sur l’évaluation des honoraires d’audit des périodes suivantes. Notre modèle théorique prévoit que la publication des honoraires conduira à l’amélioration de la précision et à la...

The aim of our paper is to determine the efficiency of the asymmetric regulation of the Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) in a market where the firms are differentiated in size and with commercial offers that include calling club effects. Major regulatory issues are related to these analyses,...

En s'inspirant de la normalisation comptable anglo-saxonne, la Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) propose un référentiel de publication volontaire d'informations sociétales. La transposition présente des limites qui rendent en fait ses principes inapplicables. Néanmoins il tend à s'imposer...

This paper addresses the question of what options are available to regulate the sector in the near future. In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying on existing literature, we argue that ex ante...