Depuis plus de vingt ans, la PAC a accentué les disparités entre les agriculteurs et entre les différentes régions agricoles. L'objet de cette étude est à la fois de dresser un bilan de la PAC et d'identifier les évolutions indispensables que la PAC doit encore connaître. Les réformes...

La balance des paiements de l'Union Economique Belgo-Luxembourgeoise ne s'établit désormais plus en fonction de l'optique du financement compensatoire. Par conséquent, la séparation entre opérations monétaires et opérations non-monétaires n'apparaît plus de manière explicite dans la...

La structure sectorielle de la province de Liège en Belgique a sensiblement évolué depuis une vingtaine d'années. La spécialisation industrielle de cette province n'a pas toujours évolué dans une direction souhaitable. Par exemple, la province de Liège n'a pas tiré grand profit de la...

The bond-equity yield ratio is defined as the ratio of the coupon yield on long government bonds to the dividend yield on equity. Commonly named in the UK as the gilt-equity yield ratio (GEYR), it has been argued to capture the relative value of bonds and equities through the differential in...

Since the 1990's run up in stock prices and subsequent crashes, the financial community has taken a dim view of the traditional valuation ratios and has instead turned its attention to a new valuation ratio: the Bond-Equity Yield Ratio (BEYR). In this paper we provide the first comprehensive,...

The Bond-Equity Yield Ratio (BEYR) has recently become a popular relative pricing tool favored by market practitioners. In this paper we compare the short-term profitability of a naive strategy based on the extreme values of the BEYR to the short-term profitability of a more sophisticated...

We put forward the Bond-Equity Yield Ratio (BEYR) as a criterium to dynamically allocate capital between equities and bonds on a short-term basis. Relying upon 30 years of monthly data for a large collection of countries, we use the cointegration, regimeswitching and ARMA-GARCH type...

This paper takes a new look at the market-timing ability of the bond-equity yield ratio (BEYR). We compare the short-term profitability of a naive strategy based on the extreme values of the BEYR to the short-term profitability of a sophisticated strategy relying on regime switches. In contrast...

Liquidity co-movements are studied within three different market capitalization indices, each made up of 100 NYSE stocks. Long-run liquidity co-movements are quantified in each class and compared to short-run liquidity co-movements. To condition the analysis of systematic liquidity upon index...

The predictability of stock returns in ten countries is assessed taking into account recently developed out-of-sample statistical tests and risk-adjusted metrics. Predictive variables include both valuation ratios and interest rate variables. Out-of-sample predictive power is found to be...