This paper analyses the long-term relationship between regional inequality and economic development. Our data set includes information on national and regional per-capita GDP for four countries: France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Data are compiled on a decadal basis for the period 1860-2010,...

The 21st century witnessed an extraordinary boom in the CDS market. The increased popularity of CDS instruments as investment and hedging vehicles has seen a parallel development in the CDS research literature. This paper exploits the results of a search on title textual analysis to explore...

Using self-organizing maps, we locate several frontier and emerging stock markets in a detailed map of 49 financial markets around the globe. This classification enables us to take into account the information contained in seven different market variables. The result is a map in which we can...