Paper presents a mechanism for measuring stability of banking system based on the default risk of nonbanking debtors and contagion potential of banks. The approach is tested on 1,000 randomized network topologies of 40 real banks. Banking system is treated as a complex system and stability is...

An auditor's report qualifies a company's financial statements if the management's representation of the company's financial affairs is not in accordance with nationally generally accepted accounting pronouncements. The present research studies the qualification of auditors' reports in relation...

In this research we propose a new method for retail credit risk modeling. In order to capture possible non-linear relationships between credit risk and explanatory variables, we use a learning vector quantization (LVQ) neural network. The model was estimated on a dataset from Slovenian banking...

We analyze the European transition economies and show that time series for most of major indices exhibit (i) power-law correlations in their values, power-law correlations in their magnitudes, and (iii) asymmetric probability distribution. We propose a stochastic model that can generate time...

Leading economic indicators have a long tradition in forecasting future economic activity. Recent developments, however, suggest that there is scope for adding extensions to the methodology of forecasting major economic fluctuations. In this paper, the author tries to develop a new model, which...

The paper provides a stock-market-performance analysis for three emerging European stock markets: Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using monthly observations we perform a detailed study of the performance of Croatian and Slovenian mutual funds and Bosnian investment funds. The...

In this article we implement liquidity in the standard value-at-risk framework. We incorporate bid-ask spread into basic VaR models. We then test these models on three foreign markets and on a domestic one. We conclude that liquidity VaR models adequately measure market risk. On one hand, the...

This paper examines the quality of the macroeconomic forecasts of six institutions that regularly publish forecasts for Slovenia. The analysis focuses on an evaluation of the quality of forecasts for the real and nominal growth of GDP and for the average annual inflation rate for the period from...

The paper examines the financial crises of the 1990s. They represent a new kind of crises, as they do not seem to conform to the so-called first generation and second generation literature on currency crises. The outburst of the Asian crises brought a new challenge for economic policy. The...

Using generation approach we examine the genesis and mechanisms in major financial crisis and focus on the recent sub – prime crisis. We believe that in the era of increased financial globalization a reliable approach has to consider besides fundamental factors multiple equilibriums and self...