Our article consists of the following 4 parts: - In the first part: documented the importance of credit risk with the presentation - analysis of the growth of 6 Greek major financial institutions loan portfolio, for the period 2001 to 2008 and comparison of the loan amount with their own funds...

Using variance decompositions in vector auto-regressions (VARs) we model a high-dimensional network of European CDS spreads to assess the transmission of credit risk to the non-financial corporate sector. Our findings suggest a sectoral clustering in the CDS network, where financial institutions...

African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a devastating impact on economy, affecting seriously the pig industry production and trade, discouraging farmers to restock their farms and continuing their business, overall changing policies and markets. In the last five years the ASF has badly...