I am currently a Full Professor of Finance at the University of Haute Alsace and Affiliated Full Professor to the EM Strasbourg Business School, France. I am a research fellow in finance at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie (LaRGE) Research Center. I have a Ph.D. in Finance from the Université Robert Schuman. My main research topics are: Banking, Corporate Finance, Emerging Markets.
Published Articles
Does Collateral Help Mitigate Adverse Selection? A Cross-Country Analysis (with Laurent Weill), Journal of Financial Services Research (2011)
In this paper, we empirically investigate whether collateral mitigates adverse selection problems in a loan...
How many banks does it take to lend? Empirical evidence from Europe (with Ydriss Ziane), Bankers, Markets & Investors (2011)
We provide empirical evidence on the determinants of the number of bank lenders using a...
La structure du pool bancaire et son contenu informatif (with Frédéric Lobez, Jean-Christophe Statnik, and Ydriss Ziane), Management & Avenir (2011)
We investigate the relationship between borrower quality and the structure of banking pools. We suppose...
Stock Market Reaction to Debt Financing Arrangements in Russia (with Zuzana Fungacova and Laurent Weill), Comparative Economic Studies (2011)
This paper investigates stock market reaction to debt arrangements in Russia. The analysis of the...
Banking environment and loan syndicate structure: a cross-country analysis, Applied Financial Economics (2010)
What is the influence of the banking environment on bank syndicate structure? We provide empirical...
Books
Contributions to Books
What drives the arrangement timetable of bank loan syndication?, THE HANDBOOK OF CREDIT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT (2008)
Excess risk and bank default. An application of default prediction's models to banks from emerging market economies, DYNAMIC MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN EMERGING MARKETS (2006)
Working Papers
Foreign Bank Lending and Information Asymmetries in China (with Pierre Pessarossi and Laurent Weill), Working Papers LaRGE (2011)
This paper considers whether information asymmetries affect the willingness of foreign banks to participate in...
Are Islamic Investment Certificates Special? Evidence on the Post-Announcement Performance of Sukuk Issues (with Rima Turk-Ariss and Laurent Weill), Working Papers LaRGE (2010)
The last decade has witnessed rapid expansion of Islamic financial instruments, notably with the proliferation...
Bank lending networks, experience, reputation, and borrowing costs (with Bulat Sanditov and Thierry Burger-Helmchen) (2010)
We investigate the network structure of syndicated lending markets and evaluate the impact of lenders’...
Better borrowers, fewer banks? (with Frédéric Lobez, Jean-Christophe Statnik, and Ydriss Ziane), Working Papers LaRGE (2010)
We investigate the relationship between borrower quality and the structure of the pool of banks....
Stock market reaction to debt financing arrangements in Russia (with Zuzana Fungacova and Laurent Weill), BOFIT Discussion Papers (2010)
This paper investigates stock market reaction to debt arrangements in Russia. The analysis of the...
Other
Thèse de doctorat de sciences de gestion : "Information, organisation et prise de risque dans la banque" (2005)
L'étude des causes internes et externes de l'excès de risque, ainsi que des mécanismes susceptibles...