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Labour Standards and Migration: do Labour Conditions Matter ?

Mardi | 2009-10-13 Rémi BAZILLIER – Yasser Moullan – Thierry BAUDASSE We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labourstandards. We use an augmented version of the Grogger and Hanson (2008) model, addingthe level of working conditions into the specification. Our hypothesis is that the differentialof working conditions may be a complementary determinant of migration. In a first time, wetest the influence of labour standards in countries of origin using a database on emigrationrates […]

Pricing the CBOT T-Bonds Futures

Mardi | 2009-05-19 Ramzi BEN-ABDALLAH – Hatem BEN-AMEUR – libre The aim of this paper is to investigate the pricing of the Chicago Board ofTrade Treasury-Bond futures. The difficulty to price it arises from its multipleinter-dependent embedded delivery options, which can be exercised at varioustimes and dates during the delivery month. We consider a general Markov diffusionprocess model for stochastic interest rates and propose a pricing algorithmthat can handle all the delivery rules embedded in the CBOT T-bond futures.Our procedure […]

Effectiveness of Corporate Governance Mechanisms in us Firms Bankrupted Following the Burst of the Financial Speculative Bubble in Mid-2007

Mardi | 2009-05-12 Xavier BREDARD – libre The aim of this paper is to analyse the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms onthe performance and the indebtedness of firms that have been bankrupted.Our sample is made of 81 U.S. firms that have filled for chapters 7 or 11 of the bankruptcyprotection law after the burst of the financial speculative bubble in mid-2007 for which wecollected characteristics for year 2006. In order to obtain a broader view of the researchproblem, we decided […]

A Robust Conditional Realized Extended 4-CAPM

Mardi | 2009-05-05 Patrick KOUONTCHOU – Bertrand MAILLET – Sessi TOKPAVI In this paper we present and extend the approach of Bollerslev and Zhang (2003)for “realized” measures and co-measures of risk in some classical asset pricingmodels, such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) of Sharpe (1964) andthe Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) model by Ross (1976). These extensionsinclude higher-moments asset pricing models (see Jurczenko and Maillet, 2006),conditional asset pricing models (see Bollerslev et al., 1988, and Jondeau andRockinger, 2004). Estimations […]