In recent years, especially in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, the performance of South Asia capital markets has attracted the attention of the researchers and investors across the globe. The resilient shown provides the impetus to examine the efficient market hypothesis in these...

Für Unternehmen kann die Analyse von Credit Spreads, d.h. der Differenz zwischen den Renditen von Unternehmensanleihen und laufzeitäquivalenten risikolosen Anlagen, nützliche Informationen erbringen, da sich Veränderungen im Credit Spread auf ihre Finanzierungskonditionen auswirkt. Prof. Dr....

This paper shows that the monetary policy paradigm that was in place before the financial crisis worked very well and that the crisis occurred only after policy makers deviated from that paradigm. The paper also evaluates monetary policy during the financial crisis by dividing the crisis into...

Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of dollar's double role of national and international currency. This is the Triffin dilemma. The paper shows how it works through three examples: price of commodities, dollarization, and the...