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
Bank lending networks, experience, reputation, and borrowing costs Empirical evidence from the French syndicated lending market (with Bulat Sanditov), Journal of Business Accouting and Finance (2012)
We investigate the network structure of bank lending markets and evaluate the impact of lenders’...
Asymmetric Information and Loan Spreads in Russia: Evidence from Syndicated Loans (with Zuzana Fungacova and Laurent Weill), Eastern European Economics (2011)
This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spread for syndicated...
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...
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
Are bank loans still ”special” (especially during a crisis)? Empirical evidence from a European country, Working Papers LaRGE (2012)
We investigate bank loans’ specialness with a particular focus on the recent boom and bust...
Why Do Large Firms Go For Islamic Loans? (with Laurent Weill), Working Papers LaRGE (2012)
This paper examines the motivations for large firms to choose an Islamic loan over a...
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’...
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...