Mercredi | 2012-01-18 B103 Armand FOUEJIEU AZANGUE Countries have faced one of the greatest economic shocks recently. The effects of the financial crisis went largely among the financial markets and hit the real economy. The aim of this study is to investigate whether inflation targeting helped countries which implement this monetary policy strategy to perform better during the 2008/2009 financial crisis. Based on the literature, we first present some arguments suggesting that inflation targeters can be expected to do better […]

Mercredi | 2012-01-11 B103 Sylvain BENOIT – Gilbert COLLETAZ – Christophe HURLIN – Article non disponible In this paper, we propose a theoretical and empirical comparison of two popular systemic risk measures – Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES) and Delta Conditional Value at Risk (CoVaR) – that can be estimated using publicly available data. First, we assume that the time-varying correlation completely captures the dependence between …rm and market returns. Under this assumption, we derive three analytical results: (i)we show that […]

Mardi | 2011-12-15 B103 Christelle GARROUSTE – Massimo LOI In a context of intensive and global economic competition, European countries are growingly concerned with the consequences of increasing numbers of young people temporarily or permanently prevented from entering the job market and the difficulties faced by college and university graduates to find adequate employment. This study is concerned with analyzing the speed of transition of students to permanent employment as a proxy of professional stability, and by identifying possible discriminatory […]

Mercredi | 2011-12-14 B103 Oumou GUISSE L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier la nature de la relation entre endettement extérieur et activité économique. L’étude se fait sur un panel constitué des pays membres de l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (à l’exception de la Guinée Bissau) sur une période allant de 1970 à 2009. La méthodologie utilisée, celle développée par Hansen (1999), a permis d’étudier et d’estimer le niveau d’endettement soutenable maximal qui pourrait être favorable à la croissance économique.Ce […]

Mardi | 2011-12-13 B103 Mazen KEBEWAR L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’impact de la structure du capital sur la profitabilité. Cet impact peut être expliqué par trois théories essentielles: la théorie du signal, l’influence de la fiscalité et la théorie de l’agence. Nous montrons, à partir d’un échantillon de 9136 entreprises réparties sur sept secteurs prises sur la période 1999-2006, à l’aide d’une étude sur panel dynamique en utilisant la méthode des moments généralisée (GMM), qu’il y a une […]

Mardi | 2011-12-06 B103 Comlanvi Jude EGGOH – Muhammad KHAN Using a large panel data of both developed and developing economies and based on the PSTR and dynamic GMM techniques, this paper highlights two aspects of the inflation-growth relationship. First, it analyzes non-linearity and offersseveral thresholds for the global sample as well as for different income specific sub-samples. Second, it identifies some indirect channels effectualfor inflation-growth non-linearity. Our empirical results substantiate both views and validate the fact that inflation-growth non-linearity […]

Mercredi | 2011-11-30 B103 Cristina BADARAU-SEMENESCU – Alexandra POPESCU

Mercredi | 2011-11-23 B103 Syed Muhammad Noaman Ahmed SHAH According to theoretical models of valuing risky corporate securities, risk of default is primary component in the overall yield spread. However, sizable empirical literature considers it otherwise by giving more importance to non-default risk factors. Current study empirically attempts to provide answer to this question by presuming that problem lies in the empirical measurement technique. By using post-hoc estimator approach of Lubotsky & Wittenberg 2006, we construct an efficient indicator for […]

Mardi | 2011-11-08 B103 Florent BRESSON – Jean-Yves DUCLOS The paper deals with poverty orderings when the value of multidimensional attributes can be compared on a same scale, such as with income of different types or from different members of the same household. The dominance criteria extend the power of earlier multidimensional dominance tests (see Duclos et al. 2006) by making (reasonable) assumptions on the relative marginal contributions of each dimensional attribute to poverty. The paper focuses on an important […]

Mardi | 2011-10-25 B103 Thierry BAUDASSE – Rémi BAZILLIER – Cristina BOBOC-TRANDAS This paper aims at providing empirical evidences concerning the linkages betweengender equality and emigration. To analyze such linkages, two theoreticalhypothesis can be made. The rst one is that gender discrimination in origincountries can be a push factor for women. Therefore an improvement of genderequality would decrease the flow of female migrants. The second one is that gender discrimination may create a gender bias » in the selection of migrants […]