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Georges Tsafack

University of Rhode Island
Verified email at uri.edu
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Dependence structure and extreme comovements in international equity and bond markets

R Garcia, G Tsafack - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2011 - Elsevier
Common negative extreme variations in returns are prevalent in international equity markets.
This has been widely documented with statistical tools such as exceedance correlation, …

Proper conditioning for coherent VaR in portfolio management

R Garcia, É Renault, G Tsafack - Management Science, 2007 - pubsonline.informs.org
… on all the real line either for the function g or for the function −g, is actually binding only for
arbitrarily large u and v. Because the function g has been defined to characterize the tail behav…

Foreign shareholding, corporate governance and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese companies

G Tsafack, L Guo - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines how a firm’s corporate governance characteristics and institutional
environment affect the presence of large foreign shareholding, and how a firm’s foreign …

Too-big-to-fail: The value of government guarantee

G Tsafack, Y Li, N Beliaeva - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
… of the implicit government guarantee for company i is computed as: Ev g , i = π i × v g , i …
of the value of the implicit government guarantee, Ev g , and the funding cost variable, while …

What drives international equity correlations? Volatility or market direction?

K Amira, A Taamouti, G Tsafack - Journal of International Money and …, 2011 - Elsevier
… We define the gain g t as the additional fraction of … g t is not invested therefore it is the
solution of the equation 12 E U ( R p ( w u s , t ∗ ) + g t ) = E U ( R p ( w u s , t ∗ ) ) and since g t is …

[PDF][PDF] Asymmetric dependence implications for extreme risk management

G Tsafack - Journal of Derivatives, 2009 - academia.edu
… Garcia and Tsafack (2007) use tail dependence functions to extend this analysis in terms
of … 4 For univariate distributions F and F0, by taking g (v) = −I (v ≤ x) which is an increasing …

[HTML][HTML] In Vitro Anti-Inflammatory and In Vivo Antiarthritic Activities of Aqueous and Ethanolic Extracts of Dissotis thollonii Cogn. (Melastomataceae) in Rats

SF Djuichou Nguemnang, EG Tsafack… - Evidence-Based …, 2019 - hindawi.com
… , 0.1 g of extracts was dissolved, and the mixture was then treated with 0.05 g of magnesium
… In a test tube containing 0.1g of extracts, 5 drops of concentrated hydrochloric acid were in…

Earnings announcement premium and return volatility: Is it consistent with risk-return trade-off?

G Tsafack, Y Becker, K Han - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Earlier studies document the earnings announcement premium, that the average stock
return around earnings announcements is positive. This study examines the earnings …

[PDF][PDF] Dependence structure and extreme comovements in international equity and bond markets with portfolio diversification effects

R Garcia, G Tsafack - Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008 - academia.edu
Equity returns are more dependent in bear markets than in bull markets. Previous studies
have argued that a multivariate GARCH model or a regime switching (RS) model based on …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of Aqueous and Methanolic Extracts of Stem Bark of Alstonia boonei De Wild. (Apocynaceae) on Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Ulcerative Colitis in …

…, SF Djuichou Nguemnang, EG Tsafack… - Evidence-Based …, 2020 - hindawi.com
Among the most exploited species in Cameroon, Alstonia boonei is widely used in African
medicine for the relief of several pathologies including gastrointestinal disorders. This study …