Download or read book La zone franc l heure de l euro written by Philippe Hugon and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La zone franc est en profonde mutation depuis la dévaluation des francs CFA et comoriens en janvier 1994 et leur arrimage à l'euro le 1er janvier 1999. Mais de nombreuses interrogations se font jour quant à son devenir. Le maintien de la zone est-il compatible avec les règles et avec les pratiques de l'Union européenne ? Le découplage de la sphère monétaire (CFA fort, faible inflation, convertibilité) et de la sphère réelle (faible croissance et faible progrès de productivité des facteurs) peut-il être atténué ? Y aura-t-il tendance à l'autonomisation des deux unions monétaires ? Dans le cadre d'une appréciation de l'euro, la perte de compétitivité-change rendra-t-elle nécessaire une nouvelle dévaluation ? Cet ouvrage veut répondre à ces questions, qui renvoient à une interdépendance des jeux de pouvoir et d'intérêts économiques et qui supposent l'éclairage de l'économie politique internationale et, notamment, de la théorie des régimes monétaires. Il est composé de trois parties. La première est consacrée à l'organisation et à l'évolution de la zone franc. La seconde analyse les transformations liées à la dévaluation et aux réformes réalisées depuis 1994. La troisième dessine les perspectives dans le contexte de mise en place de l'union monétaire européenne et de l'euro.

Download or read book La zone franc face l euro written by Arnaud de Raulin and published by Artois Presses Université. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L autre face de l Euro written by Célestin Nkou Nkou and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact de L Euro Sur Le Franc CFA written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le franc fran ais et l euro written by Marc Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zone franc written by and published by Editions de L' Epargne. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dossier euro franc CFA written by François Gaulme and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Les enjeux de l ancrage du franc CFA l euro written by Séry Paul Ozigre and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The CFA Franc Zone written by Ms.Anne Marie Gulde and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one-third of countries covered by the IMF's African Department are members of the CFA franc zone. With most other countries moving away from fixed exchange rates, the issue of an adequate policy framework to ensure the sustainability of the CFA franc zone is clearly of interest to policymakers and academics. However, little academic research exists in the public domain. This book aims to fill this void by bringing together work undertaken in the context of intensified regional surveillance and highlighting the current challenges and the main policy requirements if the arrangements are to be carried forward. The book is based on empirical research by a broad group of IMF economists, with contributions from several outside experts.

Download or read book The CFA Franc Zone written by Ali Zafar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an empirical analysis of economic and political structures impacting the CFA franc zone. Concise and practical chapters explore the history of the CFA franc zone, challenges to development, geopolitical issues, the importance of flexible exchanges rates, growth trends, and the impact of the Covid crisis. Policy reform is examined to detail economic approaches that could reduce poverty and increase the quality of life within the area. This book aims to present a macroeconomic and exchange rate framework to promote development and post-Covid recovery within the CFA franc zone. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers involved in African economics, the political economy, and development economics.

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management written by Söhnke M. Bartram and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown in presence in asset management and has revolutionized the sector in many ways. It has improved portfolio management, trading, and risk management practices by increasing efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. In particular, AI techniques help construct portfolios based on more accurate risk and return forecasts and more complex constraints. Trading algorithms use AI to devise novel trading signals and execute trades with lower transaction costs. AI also improves risk modeling and forecasting by generating insights from new data sources. Finally, robo-advisors owe a large part of their success to AI techniques. Yet the use of AI can also create new risks and challenges, such as those resulting from model opacity, complexity, and reliance on data integrity.

Download or read book Factor Investing and Asset Allocation A Business Cycle Perspective written by Vasant Naik and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World A Critical Review written by Pedro Matos and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey examines the vibrant academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. While there is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues, responsible investors increasingly assess stocks in their portfolios based on nonfinancial data on environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions), social impact (e.g., employee satisfaction), and governance attributes (e.g., board structure). The objective is to reduce exposure to investments that pose greater ESG risks or to influence companies to become more sustainable. One active area of research at present involves assessing portfolio risk exposure to climate change. This literature review focuses on institutional investors, which have grown in importance such that they have now become the largest holders of shares in public companies globally. Historically, institutional investors tended to concentrate their ESG efforts mostly on corporate governance (the “G” in ESG). These efforts included seeking to eliminate provisions that restrict shareholder rights and enhance managerial power, such as staggered boards, supermajority rules, golden parachutes, and poison pills. Highlights from this section: · There is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues and their materiality. · The ESG issue that gets the most attention from institutional investors is climate change, in particular their portfolio companies’ exposure to carbon risk and “stranded assets.” · Investors should be positioning themselves for increased regulation, with the regulatory agenda being more ambitious in the European Union than in the United States. Readers might come away from this survey skeptical about the potential for ESG investing to affect positive change. I prefer to characterize the current state of the literature as having a “healthy dose of skepticism,” with much more remaining to be explored. Here, I hope the reader comes away with a call to action. For the industry practitioner, I believe that the investment industry should strive to achieve positive societal goals. CFA Institute provides an exemplary case in its Future of Finance series (www.cfainstitute.org/research/future-finance). For the academic community, I suggest we ramp up research aimed at tackling some of the open questions around the pressing societal goals of ESG investing. I am optimistic that practitioners and academics will identify meaningful ways to better harness the power of global financial markets for addressing the pressing ESG issues facing our society.

Download or read book Monetary and Financial Systems in Africa written by Aloysius Ajab Amin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the monetary and financial systems seen in Africa. The issues related to these systems are examined to help evaluate their effectiveness in fostering the development of African economies. Economic integration is extensively discussed to highlight variations between different parts of Africa and the specific challenges seen within certain regions. The impact of monetary unions, in particular the CFA franc zone, on economic activities is also explored. This book aims to outline how sustainable development can be achieved in Africa through well-developed financial and monetary institutions and policies. It will be relevant to students, academics and policy makers interested in African and development economics.

Download or read book The Monetary Geography of Africa written by Paul R. Masson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is working toward the goal of creating a common currency that would serve as a symbol of African unity. The advantages of a common currency include lower transaction costs, increased stability, and greater insulation of central banks from pressures to provide monetary financing. Disadvantages relate to asymmetries among countries, especially in their terms of trade and in the degree of fiscal discipline. More disciplined countries will not want to form a union with countries whose excessive spending puts upward pressure on the central bank's monetary expansion. In T he Monetary Geography of Africa, Paul Masson and Catherine Pattillo review the history of monetary arrangements on the continent and analyze the current situation and prospects for further integration. They apply lessons from both experience and theory that lead to a number of conclusions. To begin with, West Africa faces a major problem because Nigeria has both asymmetric terms of trade—it is a large oil exporter while its potential partners are oil importers—and most important, large fiscal imbalances. Secondly, a monetary union among all eastern or southern African countries seems infeasible at this stage, since a number of countries suffer from the effects of civil conflicts and drought and are far from achieving the macroeconomic stability of South Africa. Lastly, the plan by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to create a common currency seems to be generally compatible with other initiatives that could contribute to greater regional solidarity. However, economic gains would likely favor Kenya, which, unlike the other two countries, has substantial exports to its neighbors, and this may constrain the political will needed to proceed. A more promising strategy for monetary integration would be to build on existing monetary unions—the CFA franc zone in western and central Africa and the Common Monetary Area in southern Africa. Masson and Pattillo argue that the goal of a creating a s

Download or read book Alternative Investments A Primer for Investment Professionals written by Donald R. Chambers and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals provides an overview of alternative investments for institutional asset allocators and other overseers of portfolios containing both traditional and alternative assets. It is designed for those with substantial experience regarding traditional investments in stocks and bonds but limited familiarity regarding alternative assets, alternative strategies, and alternative portfolio management. The primer categorizes alternative assets into four groups: hedge funds, real assets, private equity, and structured products/derivatives. Real assets include vacant land, farmland, timber, infrastructure, intellectual property, commodities, and private real estate. For each group, the primer provides essential information about the characteristics, challenges, and purposes of these institutional-quality alternative assets in the context of a well-diversified institutional portfolio. Other topics addressed by this primer include tail risk, due diligence of the investment process and operations, measurement and management of risks and returns, setting return expectations, and portfolio construction. The primer concludes with a chapter on the case for investing in alternatives.

Download or read book Mondialisation exclusion et d veloppement africain Investissement priv r le des PME et action de l tat written by Bruno Bekolo-Ebe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le CEREG a proposé, au mois de février 2003, un premier recueil de textes du Colloque Georges Ngango sous la forme de Mélanges publiés aux Editions Montchrestien (Paris), intitulés Dynamiques de développement : débats théoriques et enjeux politiques à l'aube du 21ème siècle, sous la direction de Bruno Bekolo-Ebe, Touna Mama et Séraphin Magloire Fouda. Les contributions retenues dans cet ouvrage examinaient alors l'apport du Professeur Georges Walter Ngango à l'économie du développement, revisitaient un certain nombre de thèmes qui lui étaient chers et / ou resituaient son action d'homme politique et d'économiste catholique, humaniste engagé, dans la problématique générale du développement. La richesse et la diversité des contributions et des échanges lors du colloque de février 2001 ont été telles que justice n'aurait pas été faite aux participants, en laissant de côté des communications intéressantes et pertinentes qui ont contribué à animer les débats pendant les trois jours qu'a duré le Colloque. Le CEREG est ainsi heureux de poursuivre l'aventure à travers la publication d'un deuxième ouvrage collectif en deux tomes qui, bien que n'étant pas des Mélanges au sens strict du terme, n'en comporte pas moins les caractéristiques qui sont ici la pluridisciplinarité, la variété géographique des contributeurs, l'hommage des disciples au maître. Les contributions retenues sont ici proposées sous le titre Mondialisation, exclusion et développement africain : stratégies des acteurs publics et privés. Ce titre prend en compte les principales préoccupations du Professeur Georges Walter Ngango au cours des années qui ont précédé sa disparition i.e., la place et le rôle de l'Afrique dans la mondialisation, les voies pour le continent d'en tirer quelque bénéfice pour un développement durable, et, enfin, les menaces d'exclusion susceptibles d'entraîner la marginalisation non seulement des individus, mais aussi des Etats. En filigrane de ces préoccupations, se retrouvent une analyse des conséquences des réformes économiques et l'examen des sources de la croissance, en général, et de l'investissement, en particulier, qu'il soit le fait des acteurs publics ou des acteurs privés.