Catalogue of foreign literature: French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Spanish and other languages, including translations.

Mode of access: Internet.

French portraits;

Mode of access: Internet.

‘Abuse of Rights’ in Belgian and French Patent Law – A Case Law Analysis

This paper examines what types of actions undertaken by patent holders have been considered as abusive in the framework of French and Belgian patent litigation. Particular attention is given to the principle of the prohibition of “abuse of rights” (AoR). In the jurisdictions under scrutiny, the principle of AoR is essentially a jurisprudential construction in cases where judges faced a particular set of circumstances for which no codified rules were available. To investigate how judges deal with the prohibition of AoR in patent litigation and taking into account the jurisprudential nature of the principle, an in-depth and comparative case law analysis has been conducted. Although the number of cases in which patent holders have been sanctioned for such abuses is not overabundant, they do provide sufficient leads on what is understood by Belgian and French courts to constitute an abuse of patent rights. From this comparative analysis, useful lessons can be learned for the interpretation of the ambiguous notion of ‘abuse’ from a broader perspective.

La Basoche

"Revue de littërature et d'art."(varies slightly)

A comparative view of the French and English nations, in their manners, politics and literature /

Binder's title : View of the French and English nations.

French authors; a hand-book of French literature. Froissart --Living writers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mit Ofelii we francuskojęzycznej literaturze belgijskiej doby symbolizmu.

Wydział Neofilologia: Instytut Filologii Romańskiej

Predictability of stock market returns: Evidence from Eurozone's banking sectors

This paper analyzes the in-, and out-of sample, predictability of the stock market returns from Eurozone’s banking sectors, arising from bank-specific ratios and macroeconomic variables, using panel estimation techniques. In order to do that, I set an unbalanced panel of 116 banks returns, from April, 1991, to March, 2013, to constitute equal-weighted country-sorted portfolios representative of the Austrian, Belgian, Finish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish banking sectors. I find that both earnings per share (EPS) and the ratio of total loans to total assets have in-sample predictive power over the portfolios’ monthly returns whereas, regarding the cross-section of annual returns, only EPS retain significant explanatory power. Nevertheless, the sign associated with the impact of EPS is contrarian to the results of past literature. When looking at inter-yearly horizon returns, I document in-sample predictive power arising from the ratios of provisions to net interest income, and non-interest income to net income. Regarding the out-of-sample performance of the proposed models, I find that these would only beat the portfolios’ historical mean on the month following the disclosure of year-end financial statements. Still, the evidence found is not statistically significant. Finally, in a last attempt to find significant evidence of predictability of monthly and annual returns, I use Fama and French 3-Factor and Carhart models to describe the cross-section of returns. Although in-sample the factors can significantly track Eurozone’s banking sectors’ stock market returns, they do not beat the portfolios’ historical mean when forecasting returns.

Books of reference for students & teachers of French; a critical survey.

Mode of access: Internet.

Histoire de la littérature française hors de France.

Suisse française.--Belgique.--Canada.--Hollande, Suède et Danemark.--Allemagne.--Angleterre.--La littérature française en Orient.--[Russie.--Roumanie]

Classified catalogue of the books, except fiction, French and German, in the Carnegie Free Library, of Allegheny, Pa. Class-list. Author-index. Subject-index.

Mode of access: Internet.

Louisiana studies : literature, customs and dialects, history and education /

Mode of access: Internet.

The symbolist movement in literature /

"Bibliography and notes": p. [331]-365.

French profiles /

The last chapter, which is not in any sense a profile, was published, in a French translation made by Henry D. Davray, in the Mercure de France and then as a separate brochure. The profiles are reprinted in part from the Fortnightly review, the Contemporary review, the International quarterly review, the Saturday review, the Daily chronicle, and the Cosmopolis. cf. Pref.