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Régis BLAZY
Full Professor
Field : Finance-Insurance-Banking
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TEACHING FIELDS
Credit Risk Management
Banking and Financial Economics
Credit-scoring
RESEARCH TOPICS
Economics of Financial Distress
TEACHING
M2 Conseiller en clientelle professionnelle
Programme Grande Ecole
EXPERIENCES
Agrégation des Universités
PhD in Economics
Academic articles / Management and economics / Section 37
"When secured and unsecured creditors recover the same: The emblematic case of the Tunisian corporate
bankruptcies" (with Aziza LETAIEF), Emerging Markets Review, Vol. ISSN 1566-0141, n° j.ememar.2016.08.021, 2016
[CNRS cat.3 / HCERES]
"L'effacement des dettes des particuliers surendettés : une étude empirique des décisions judiciaires" (with Bertrand
CHOPARD, Eric LANGLAIS, Ydriss ZIANE), Economie et Prévision, n° 202-203, December 2014 [CNRS cat.3 /
HCERES]
"The choice between informal and formal restructuring: The case of French banks facing distressed SMEs" (with Jocelyn
MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 44, July 2014 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES / FNEGE rang 1]
"Severe or gentle bankruptcy law: which impact on investing and financing decisions?" (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Giselle
UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL), Economic Modelling, Vol. 34, August 2013 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES]
"Why do banks ask for collateral in SME lending?" (with Laurent WEILL), Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 23, n° 13,
2013 [CNRS cat.4 / HCERES / FNEGE rang 4]
"Personal bankruptcy law, fresh starts, and judicial practice" (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Eric LANGLAIS, Ydriss ZIANE),
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 169, n° 4, 2013 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES]
"(Un)secured Debt and the Likelihood of Court Supervised Reorganization" (with Bertrand CHOPARD), European
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 34, n° 1, 2012 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES]
"Corporate Governance and Financial Development: A Study of the French Case" (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno
DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU), European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 33, n° 2, 2012 [CNRS cat.2 /
HCERES]
"Building legal indexes to explain recovery rates: An analysis of the French and English bankruptcy codes" (with
Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. DOI, n° DOI, 2012 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES /
FNEGE rang 1]
"Entreprises en difficultés: l'arbitrage des tribunaux entre maintien de l'emploi et apurement du passif" (with Bertrand
CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU), Economie et Statistique, n° 443, December 2011 [CNRS cat.3 /
HCERES]
"Employment Preservation vs. Creditors' Repayment under Bankruptcy Law: the French Dilemma?" (with Bertrand
CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU), International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 31, n° 2, 2011
[CNRS cat.1 / HCERES]
"Bankruptcy Law: a Mechanism of Governance for Financially Distressed Firms" (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès
FIMAYER), European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 25, n° 3, 2008 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES]
"Le rôle des garanties dans les prêts des banques françaises" (with Laurent WEILL), Revue d'Economie Politique, n° 4,
2006 [CNRS cat.3 / HCERES]
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"Ex Post Efficiency of Bankruptcy Procedures: a General Normative Framework" (with Bertrand CHOPARD),
International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 24, n° 4, December 2004 [CNRS cat.1 / HCERES]
"Crédit, sanctions judiciaires et sélections d'entreprises" , Revue d'Economie Politique, Vol. 112, n° 1, 2002 [CNRS cat.3
/ HCERES]
"Modifications de comportement précédant la défaillance d'entreprise : l'impact des cessions d'actifs sur la relation de
crédit" , Recherches Économiques de Louvain / Louvain Economic Review, Vol. 2, n° 65, 1999 [CNRS cat.3 / HCERES]
"Mimétisme, erreurs d'anticipation de la demande et risque de défaillance des entreprises industrielles en France : un
modèle économétrique à correction d'erreur" , Economie et Prévision, n° 125, 1996 [CNRS cat.3 / HCERES]
"Les défaillances d'entreprises : des difficultés visibles plusieurs années à l'avance" (with Patricia CHARLETY, Jérôme
COMBIER), Economie et Statistique, n° 268-269, 1993 [CNRS cat.3 / HCERES]
"Born to be alive? The survival of innovative and non-innovative French micro-start-ups" (with Tristan BOYER), Small
Business Economics, Vol. 41, n° 3, October 2013 [CNRS cat.2 / HCERES / FNEGE rang 2]
Academic articles (other journals)
"Quelles spécificités du Droit tunisien de la faillite? Une approche « Law & Finance » comparée" (with Aziza LETAIEF),
Economics & Strategic Management of Business Process, Vol. 5, n° French spec. issue, February 2015
"Stakeholders Protection and Financial Development: Evidence from France" (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno
DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU), International Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 9, n° 1, 2009
Research books
Une analyse comparative des procédures de faillite : France, Allemagne, Royaume-Uni , La Documentation Française,
collection , France, 16 ed., June 2008, (with Anne-France DELANNAY, Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
La faillite - éléments d'analyse économique (préface de Pierre MORIN), Economica, coll°. "Approfondissement de la
connaissance économique", France, March 2000,
La défaillance d'entreprise : causes économiques, traitement judiciaire et impact financier , Economica, INSEE
Méthodes, France, 72 ed., 1997, (with Jérôme COMBIER)
Textbooks
Les défaillances d'entreprises, Presses Universitaires de France, collection "Que-sais-je ?", n°3311, France, 1998, 128
p., (with Jérôme COMBIER)
Editing
De l'attractivité du droit français des affaires à la lecture des rapports Doing Business de la Banque mondiale , Lamy,
France, December 2010, (with Michel STORCK, Jérôme LASERRE-CAPDEVILLE)
Chapters in research books
"Le microcrédit : une finance au service du développement?", in : Chantal CUTAJAR, Jérôme LASSERRE
CAPDEVILLE et Michel STORCK, Finance et Ethique, Lamy, February 2013, 248 pages,
"Défaut de paiement des entreprises : de l'intérêt de la solution judiciaire", in : Jérôme LASSERRE-CAPDEVILLE,
Michel STORCK, Le crédit : Aspects juridiques et économiques, Dalloz-Sirey, 2012,
"Comment mesurer l'efficacité du droit des faillites?", in : Régis BLAZY, Michel STORCK, Jérôme
LASERRE-CAPDEVILLE, De l'attractivité du droit français des affaires à la lecture des rapports Doing, Lamy, December
2010, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"How do the Courts Choose between Different Bankruptcy Outcomes? The Results of a French Survey", in : W.-G.
RINGE, L. GULLIFER, P. THERY, Current Issues in European Financial and Insolvency Law, Hart Publishing, 11 ed.,
2009, 181-205, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
Papers presented at academic association conferences
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?",
Nicolae STEF)
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?",
2015 (with Nicolae STEF)
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?",
Nicolae STEF)
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?",
STEF)
Annual meeting of the EFMA, Nyenrode, 2015 (with
32nd Spring international conference of AFFI, Cergy,
22nd Annual Conference of MFS, Halkidiki, 2015 (with
Annual Meeting SFA, Captiva Island, 2015 (with Nicolae
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"Determinants of Liquidation and Reorganization: Empirical Evidence from UK and France?", 2014 MFA Annual Meeting
, Orlando, March 2014 (with Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Why Do Banks Ask for Collaterals?", Annual Meeting SFA, Puerto Rico, November 2013 (with Laurent WEILL)
"The Choice Between Informal and Formal Restructuring: The Case of French Banks Facing Distressed SMEs", ALEA
23rd Annual Meeting, Nashville, Vanderbilt University, May 2013 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? - Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the United
Kingdom", 2013 annual meeting, Chicago, March 2013 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 19th Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society,
Kraków, June 2012 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 29th Spring International Conference of the French Finance
Association, Strasbourg, May 2012 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", Midwest Finance Association Annual Conference, New Orleans,
February 2012 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs",
Midwest Finance Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, February 2012 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 28th Annual Conference of the EALE, Hamburg, September 2011
(with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs", 18th
Annual Conference of MFS, Roma, June 2011 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs", Annual
Meeting of the EFMA, Braga, June 2011 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs", 28th
Spring Conference of AFFI, Montpellier, May 2011 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs", EFM
Symposium on Alternative Investments, April 2011 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", MFA annual conference, March 2011 (with Bruno
DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", Annual
Meeting of the SFA, Asheville, USA, novembre 2010 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", 27th
Annual Conference of the EALE, Paris, France, September 2010 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK ", 17th
Annual Conference of the MFS, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK ", Annual
Meeting of the EFMA, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2010 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", FMA
European Conference 2010, Hamburg, Germany, June 2010 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Legal Approach of Corporate Governance: the French Case", 27th Spring Conference of AFFI, Saint Malo, France,
May 2010 (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Legal Approach of Corporate Governance: the French Case", International Symposium in Computational Economics
and Finance (ISCEF), Sousse, Tunisia, February 2010 (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel
GUIGOU)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", 26th Annual Conference of the EALE, September
2009 (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", Annual Meeting of the EFMA, Milan, Italy, June
2009 (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", Summer Conference of the
International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2009 (with Bertrand CHOPARD,
Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", Annual European Conference of the FMA, Turin,
Italy, June 2009 (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", Colloque annuel de l'AFFI,
Brest, France, May 2009 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
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"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", The 3rd Annual Conference on
Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), Ithaca, USA, September 2008 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER,
Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", The 40th MMF Research
Group, London, United Kingdom, September 2008 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", Annual European Conference
of the FMA, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2008 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", The 57th Annual Meeting of the
MFA, San Antonio, USA, February 2008 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", Annual Meeting of the SFA, Captiva Island, USA,
november 2009 (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", Annual Meeting of the FMA, Reno, USA, October
2009 (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", Annual Meeting of the SFA, Key West, november 2011
Other conferences/Other presentations
"Serving the creditors after insolvency filing: From value creation to value distribution", 12th annual conference, Italian
Society of Law and Economics (ISLE/SIDE), Torino, December 2016, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?", 1st European Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
(CELSE), Amsterdam, June 2016, (with Nicolae STEF)
"Determinants of corporate insolvency procedures in England: The uneasy case for liquidations", Workshop "Bankruptcy
institutions, insolvency, and entrepreneurship", Nanterre, 2016, (with Nirjhar Nigam)
"Determinants of corporate insolvency procedures in England: The uneasy case for liquidations", Workshop "Bankruptcy
institutions, corporate insolvency, and entrepreneurship, Torino, November 2015, (with Nirjhar NIGAM)
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?", 13th INFINITI Conference on International Finance,
Ljubljana, 2015, (with Nicolae STEF)
"Measuring the efficiency of bankruptcy [keynote speech]", CIDE international conference, Mons, 2015,
"When secured and unsecured creditors recover the same : The emblematic case of the tunisian corporate
bankruptcies", 3rd International Conference on Economics, Finance, Accounting and Transparency (EFAT'2015) ,
Hammamet, 2015, (with Aziza LETAIEF)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", World
Finance Conference, Venice, July 2014, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"The Choice between Informal and Formal Restructuring: the Case of French Banks Facing Distressed SMEs", 1st
International Meeting in Law & Economics, Nanterre, March 2014, (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Severe or gentle bankruptcy law: which impact on investing and financing decisions?", 15ème journée d'études sur les
faillites, Nanterre, January 2014, (with Gisèle UMBHAUER, Bruno DEFFAINS, Laurent WEILL)
"How do the bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?", 10th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and
Economics, Roma, 2014, (with Nicolae STEF)
"Quelles spécificités du Droit tunisien de la faillite ? Une approche « Law ", 2nd International Conference on Business,
Economics, Marketing , Monastir, 2014, (with Aziza LETAIEF)
"When secured and unsecured creditors recover the same: The emblematic case of the Tunisian corporate
bankruptcies", 2nd Paris Financial Management Conference (PFMC-14), Paris, 2014, (with Aziza LETAIEF)
"Born to Be Alive ? The Survival of Innovative and Non-Innovative French Micro Start-ups", 30th International Monetary
and Banking Encounters (GDRE finance), Poitiers, June 2013, (with Tristan BOYER)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", ESSEC
Paris Seminar, April 15th 2013 , Cergy-Pontoise, April 2013, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 8th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics
, Roma, December 2012, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Le microcrédit: une finance au service du développement?", IFS Summer School "Finance et éthique", Strasbourg,
September 2012,
"How Does Bankruptcy Punishment Impact on the Design of Renegotiable Debt Contracts?", 10th INFINITI Conference
on International Finance, Dublin, June 2012, (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 29th International Monetary and Banking Encounters (GDRE
finance), Nantes, June 2012, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
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"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", 10th
INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, June 2012, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs", 10th
INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, June 2012, (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Determinants of Liquidation and Reorganization Empirical Evidence from UK and France", 10th INFINITI Conference
on International Finance, Dublin, June 2012, (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"How Does Bankruptcy Punishment Impact on the Design of Renegotiable Debt Contracts?", CRESE Seminar,
Besançon, April 2012, (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 11ème journée d'études sur les faillites, Nanterre, December 2011,
(with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Risque de crédit : les facteurs explicatifs du choix entre renégociation privée et procédures collectives", Université d'été
de l'Institut de Finance de Strasbourg (IFS), September 2011,
"Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Dealing with Distressed SMEs", 28ème
Colloque GDRE Monnaie, Banque et Finance, Reading, June 2011, (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"L'effacement des dettes des particuliers surendettés : Une étude empirique des décisions judiciaires ", Thematic
Meeting of AFSE (Law & Economics), Besançon, June 2011, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Eric LANGLAIS, Ydriss ZIANE)
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", 9th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, June
2011, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"De l'attractivité du droit français des affaires à la lecture des rapports Doing Business de la Banque mondiale",
Université d'été de l'Institut de Finance de Strasbourg (IFS), Strasbourg, France, September 2010, (with Afef
BOUGHANMI, Nirjhar NIGAM, Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", 27ème
Colloque GDRE Monnaie, Banque et Finance, Bordeaux, France, June 2010, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", 8ème
journée d'études sur les faillites, Nanterre, France, June 2010, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", 1st World Finance Conference (WFC), Viana do
Castelo, Portugal, May 2010, (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Legal Approach of Corporate Governance: the French Case", 5ème colloque international de l'ISG, Sousse, Tunisia,
March 2010, (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Coûts financier et social de la défaillance: une perspective européenne", Workshop Association Française en Faveur
de l'Institution Consulaire (AFFIC), Paris, février 2010,
"Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK", 4th
French-German Talks in Law and Economics, Trier, Germany, December 2009, (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
"Le sauvetage des entreprises en difficultés - un arbitrage entre efficacité sociale et efficacité financière", Université
d'été de l'Institut de Finance de Strasbourg (IFS), September 2009, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER,
Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Legal Approach of Corporate Governance: the French Case", 1st Mediterranean Critical Studies in Accounting and
Finance Conference, Hammamet, Tunisia, July 2009, (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel
GUIGOU)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", 26ème Colloque GDRE Monnaie, Banque et
Finance, Orléans, France, June 2009, (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", 6ème journée d'études sur les
faillites, Nanterre, France, May 2009, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", 15th workshop GDRE "Monnaie-Banque-Finance",
axe thématique "Intermédiation et systèmes financiers", Nancy, France, April 2009, (with Bruno DEFFAINS, Gisèle
UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contracts?", Academic Conference on "Bankruptcy and Distress
Resolution", Financial Law Institute of Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, December 2008, (with Bruno DEFFAINS,
Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
"Financial versus Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law: The French Dilemma", 25ème Colloque GDRE
Monnaie, Banque et Finance, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 2008, (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER,
Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
"Legal Indexes on Corporate Bankruptcy: presentation of the PLAFILOI project (3 years program "VIVRE2", FNR)",
CREFI Workshop "Advances on Theory and Applied Finance", Luxembourg, Luxembourg, April 2008,
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"How Do the Courts Choose between Different Bankruptcy Outcomes? The Results of a French Survey", Workshop on
Financial and Insolvency Law (Harris Manchester College), Oxford University, Harris Manchester College, U.K., March
2008, (with Agnès FIMAYER, Nirjhar NIGAM)
"Le jeu de la faillite", Séminaire de MINES ParisTech (ENSMP), October 2009,
"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates", Séminaire LIEN EconomiX, Nanterre, november 2011, (with
Bertrand CHOPARD, Nirjhar NIGAM)
Working papers
How do bankruptcy systems perform in Eastern Europe?, LARGE, n°2015-07, University of Strasbourg, December 2015
(with Nicolae STEF)
When secured and unsecured creditors recover the same: The emblematic case of the Tunisian corporate bankruptcies ,
LARGE, n°2015-08, University of Strasbourg, December 2015 (with Aziza LETAIEF)
Building Legal Indexes to explain Recovery Rates: An Analysis of the French and UK Bankruptcy Codes (LARGE WP
n°2011-02), LARGE, University of Strasbourg, February 2011 (with Nirjhar NIGAM)
Arbitrating between Renegotiation and Bankruptcy: The Case of French Banks Facing Distressed SMEs (LARGE WP
n°2010-15), LARGE, University of Strasbourg, novembre 2010 (with Jocelyn MARTEL, Nirjhar NIGAM)
How Bankruptcy Punishment Influences the Ex-Ante Design of Debt Contract? (CREFI WP n°0804) , CREFI, university
of Luxembourg, 2008 (with Gisèle UMBHAUER, Laurent WEILL)
Law, Corporate Governance and Financial System: Econometric Analysis of French Case (CREFI WP n°0805) , CREFI,
university of Luxembourg, 2008 (with Afef BOUGHANMI, Bruno DEFFAINS, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
Financial vs. Social Efficiency of Corporate Bankruptcy Law (CREFI WP n°0702) , CREFI, university of Luxembourg,
2007 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER, Jean-Daniel GUIGOU)
Bankruptcy Law: a Mechanism of Governance for Financially Distressed Firms (CREFI WP n°0605) , CREFI, university
of Luxembourg, 2006 (with Bertrand CHOPARD, Agnès FIMAYER)
La performance économique et financière des jeunes entreprises pérennes (version révisée) (CREFI WP n°0606) ,
CREFI, university of Luxembourg, 2006 (with Bertrand CHOPARD)
Why Do Banks Ask for Collateral and Which Ones? (CREFI WP n°0607), CREFI, university of Luxembourg, 2006 (with
Laurent WEILL)
How Recovery Process Influences the Design of Debt Contract (CREFI WP n°0608) , CREFI, university of Luxembourg,
2006 (with Laurent WEILL)
The Impact of Legal Sanctions on Moral Hazard when Debt Contract are Renegotiable (CREFI WP n°0609) , university
of Luxembourg, 2006 (with Laurent WEILL)
Ex Post Efficiency of Bankruptcy Procedures (LARGE WP n°73), LARGE, University of Strasbourg, 2004 (with Bertrand
CHOPARD)
La performance économique et financière des jeunes entreprises (LARGE WP n°72), LARGE, University of Strasbourg,
2004 (with Bertrand CHOPARD)
Can Bankruptcy Law Discriminate Between Hetero-geneous Firms When Information is Incomplete? The Case of Legal
Sanctions (LARGE WP n°71), LARGE, University of Strasbourg, 2004
Causes de la défaillance des entreprises et déroulement des procédures collectives (INSEE, document de travail
n°9505), INSEE, INSEE, 1995 (with Jérôme COMBIER)
Can Bankruptcy Codes Create Value? Evidence from Creditors' Recoveries in France, Germany, and the UK (LARGE
WP n°2010-11), LARGE, University of Strasbourg, november 2010 (with Joël PETEY, Laurent WEILL)
Organization of scientific meetings
25ème journées d'économie monétaire et bancaire du GDR [International Monetary and Banking Encounters] (18-20
juin 2008), Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 2008
22ème journées d'économie monétaire et bancaire du GDR [International Monetary and Banking Encounters] (16-17
Juin 2005), Strasbourg, France, June 2005
Studies and reports
Théories de la décision en environnement incertain et choix énergétiques (Rapport de recherche commandé par le
CEA), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Paris, France, 2002, (with Bernard GUILLOCHON (coordination))
Gouvernement d'entreprise par et dans le Droit des défaillances d'entreprises (Rapport de recherche financé par le
Commissariat Général du Plan), Commissariat Général du Plan (Décision n°4/1999, 0, Paris, France, 2000, (with Annick
BIENVENU-PERROT (coordination))
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Le mandataire de Justice, un agent économique (présidence de commission et rapport de synthèse du 9ème séminaire
de l'IFPPC), Institut Français de Praticiens de Procédures Coll, Reims, France, 1998,
Le crédit interentreprises : premier financement du commerce (INSEE Première n°360) , INSEE, Paris, France, 1995,
(with Jérôme COMBIER)
Le règlement amiable, mode d'emploi (Lettre de l'Observatoire consulaire des entreprises en difficultés, AFFIC)(n°4) ,
Observatoire consulaire des entreprises en difficu, Paris, France, 1995, (with Jérôme COMBIER)
La situation du commerce en 1993 (31ème rapport de la Commission des comptes commerciaux de la nation,
novembre 1994), INSEE, Paris, France, 1994,
Doctoral theses/HDR completed
Four Essays on the Bankruptcy Mechanism: Legal and Economic Aspects (Nicolae STEF) Director: Régis BLAZY
(Strasbourg), University of Strasbourg, December 2014
Essais sur le processus de défaillance des entreprises en Tunisie : Déterminants, recouvrements et spécificités
institutionnelles (Aziza LETAIEF) Director: Régis BLAZY (Strasbourg), University of Strasbourg - IHEC Sousse,
December 2014
Strategies in Investment Funds Industry (Jean-Marie YAO) Director: Régis BLAZY (Strasbourg) , University of
Strasbourg, June 2012
Les défaillances d'entreprise: une analyse économique des causes, des effets et de l'environnement (Agnès FIMAYER)
Directors: Régis BLAZY (Strasbourg) and Tibor NEUGEBAUER (Luxembourg), University of Strasbourg - university of
Luxembourg, June 2011
Essays on Corporate Default Process: UK and France (Nirjhar NIGAM) Directors: Régis BLAZY (Strasbourg) and Tibor
NEUGEBAUER (Luxembourg), University of Strasbourg - university of Luxembourg, February 2011
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