Research

Publications

“Welcome on board: A note on gender quotas regulation in Europe.”, (with Chiara De Amicis and Sonia Falconieri), Economics Letters (2020)
“Female Board Directorship and Firm Performance: What Really Matters?”, (with Tawhid Chtioui, Haithem Nagati and Mehdi Nekhili), Journal of Banking & Finance, 88 (2018), 267-291.
“Performance-Sensitive Debt: A New Mechanism” (with Sami Attaoui and Imen Mejri), Finance, 38-2 (2017): 39-93.
"Single versus Multiple banking: Lessons from Initial Public Offerings", (with Sonia Falconieri and Maher Kooli), The European Journal of Finance, 23-10(2017), 841-858.
"Does Auditors’ Reputation ‘Discourage’ Related Party Transactions? The French Case", (with Mehdi Nekhili and Philippe Touron), Forthcoming, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.
"Trading mechanisms in financial markets: A comparison between Auction and Dealership Markets", Chapter 3 in Market Microstructure and Nonlinear Dynamics, edited by Gilles Dufrénot, Fredj Jawadi and Wael Louhichi (Eds), Springer-Verlag, (2014): 51-93.
"Measuring the impact of information aggregation mechanisms: an experimental investigation", (with Henner Gimpel and Jacques Robert), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 78-3 (2011): 302-318.
"Information provision in financial markets", (with Robert Clark and Jacques Robert), Annals of Finance, 6-2 (2010): 255-286
"The optimality of uniform pricing in IPOs: An optimal auction approach", (with Sonia Falconieri), Review of Finance, 12 (2008): 673-700 ()
"Risk Aversion and Full Extraction in Mechanism Design", in "Mechanisms and Policies in Economics", Edited by John Roufagalas, ATINER publications, Athens (2007): 125 – 144. (pdf version)
"Optimal Auctions With Asymmetrically Informed Bidders", (with Sonia Falconieri), Economic Theory, 28 (2006): 585 – 602.
"Optimal Allocation Rules in IPOs with Risk AverseInvestors", (with Sonia Falconieri), Rivista di Politica Economica, July-August (2005): 3 -29.

Working papers

"Do Board Gender Quotas Benefit Minority Shareholders? An Illustration through Related-Party Transactions" (With Haithem Nagati and Mehdi Nekhili)
"Trading Mechanism, Ex-post Uncertainty and IPO Underpricing", (with Sonia Falconieri and Daniel Weaver),
"A new design of Performance-Sensitive Debt", (with Sami Attaoui and Imen Mejri)
"Consumer search and Information Intermediary", (with Robert Clark and Jacques Robert), January 2007.

Ongoing projects

"Gender quota laws diversity" (With Chiara De Amicis and Sonia Falconieri)
"Why Do European IPO firms hire Financial Advisors? (With Sonia Falconieri and Mesut Tastan)
"The IPO market in Europe during the 2008 crisis", with Sonia Falconieri and Mesut Tastan.

Conferences and Seminars (Since 2009)

Research seminar at Montpellier Research in Management, finance group, Montpellier, France, 2016, 2018, 2019

Annual conference of the Southern finance association, Florida, USA, November, 2016

Weekly finance seminar organized at Paris-Sorbonne University, April 10, 2014

Global Finance conference, Dubai (UAE), March 31 – April 2, 2014 (two papers presented)

The 2^nd International Conference on Multidimensional Finance, Insurance and Investment, University of Bahrain, November, 2013

The AFFI (French Finance Association) conference, Lyon (France), Mai 2013, (two presentations)

The inter Business schools seminar, ESSEC (Paris), February 2013

II^nd World Finance Conference, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), July, 2012

The CASS Business School seminar series, London (UK), June 2012

The AFFI (French Finance Association) conference, Strasbourg (France), Mai 2012

2012 Financial Markets and corporate governance conference, La Trobe university, Melbourne (Australia), April 2012

Pedagogical Brown-bags, Rouen Business School, Rouen, France, October 2011

World Finance Conference, Rhodes (Greece), June 2011

European Winter Finance Summit, Hermagor (Austria), March 2011

SWFA meeting, Dallas (USA), March, 2010

Financial Intermediation Research Society, Prague (Czech Republic), May 2009

Canadian Society of Economic Sciences, Sainte-Adèle (Canada), May 2009