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Haute école de gestion de Genève

Do socially responsible investments outperform conventional ones ?

Schaub, Laurent-Xavier ; Ruiz, Frédéric (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 87.

The literature has seen a growing number of studies addressing the topic of sustainable finance, while firms also seem to be keener on undertaking and advertising societal actions. The role firms play in society has been evolving, especially due to the rising demand for corporate social responsibilities. The question that recurrently arises is whether being socially responsible will allow...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

La buy-and-build strategy en private equity

Leuenberger, Marc ; Seiler, Robert (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDEE 393.

L’objectif de ce travail est principalement d’offrir aux potentiels investisseurs un aperçu global de la stratégie Buy-and-Build et de recommander ou non l’investissement. De plus, ce travail vient compléter la littérature déjà existante sur le sujet.Tout au long de ce travail, il a été relevé que de nombreux facteurs étaient ou pouvaient être utilisés afin de créer de la...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Financial market integration and asset prices

Sandulescu, Paula Mirela ; Trojani, Fabio (Dir.) ; Gagliardini, Patrick (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO008.

My doctoral thesis examines the relationships among the degree of financial market integration and the pricing of different classes of assets. The first chapter provides a theoretical framework that uncovers in a model-free way the relationship between international stochastic discount factors (SDFs), stochastic wedges, and financial market structures. Exchange rates are in general different...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Essays in household finance and monetary policy transmission

Gianinazzi, Virginia ; Plazzi, Alberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO005.

This thesis consists of three chapters that contribute to two fundamental questions in finance: how households make financial decisions and how market prices react to uninformative demand shocks. The first chapter investigates how household respond to mortgage refinancing incentives. A well-documented finding in household finance is that many borrowers miss out on substantial savings by...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Asset prices and demand shocks

Barbon, Andrea ; Franzoni, Francesco (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO002.

My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on a different area of research in asset pricing. The first chapter deals with the informational role of brokerage firms during fire sales in the equity market. The second chapter exploits the ETF program by the bank of Japan as a quasi-natural experiment to measure the slope of the equity demand curve. The last chapter presents...

Université de Fribourg

The Korea discount and chaebols

Ducret, Romain ; Isakov, Dušan

(Working Papers SES ; 511)

Finance practitioners frequently claim that stocks of Korean firms are undervalued and trade at a discount relative to foreign firms. This phenomenon is commonly called «the Korea discount». It is based on anecdotal evidence comparing either the price- earnings ratios of different market indexes or those of different individual stocks. This paper provides empirical evidence on the existence...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Risque de bulle financière sur le marché américain des actions : analyse fondamentale de grosses capitalisations boursières et comparaison historique

Reggiani, Michael ; Schorderet, Yann (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDEE 362.

Le 26 Janvier 2018, l’indice américain S&P 500 clôturait à son plus haut niveau historique, affichant 2’872.82 points. Depuis la fin de la crise financière de 2008, le marché des actions américaines est en plein bull market. À tel point que le S&P 500 a progressé de 250% depuis 2009. Les bourses américaines ont dépassé de loin leur pic de 2007, ce qui n’est pas le cas des autres...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Acceptance of digital payment methods in Switzerland

Milla Rodriguez, Allison ; Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; TDIBM 41.

The advent of the technology brings new possibilities in term of payment solutions and as a consequence the use of cash is declining. There are even regulations that force people to pay by electronic methods depending on the amount/or the country. These regulations limit the amount of cash in a single transaction to combat illegal practices. Indeed, cashless payment methods offer transparency and...

Université de Fribourg

Founding family ownership, stock market returns, and agency problems

Eugster, Nicolas ; Isakov, Dušan

(Working Papers SES ; 490 (revised))

This paper explores the relationship between founding family ownership and stock market returns. Using the entire population of non-financial firms listed on the Swiss stock market for 2003–2013, we find that the stock returns of family firms are significantly higher than those of non-family firms after adjusting the returns for different firm characteristics and risk factors. Family firms...