This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator … are both national (such as equity market run-ups that preceded the crisis) and, critically, international financial and … securities that deteriorate in value is exposed to an American crisis through a financial channel. Similarly, a country which …

, macroeconomic and financial influences are not closely associated with the cross-country incidence of speculative attacks. We also …

the global financial crisis. This is due in part to the fact that many small economies continue to use hard exchange rate … data from more than 170 countries from 2007 through 2012 and find that the macroeconomic and financial consequences of … hard fixers have been similar to those for inflation targeters during the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath. …

To identify the effect of social capital on financial development, we exploit the well-known differences in social …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …

We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …

In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short …-run competitive pressure has a positive impact on performance. The paper also finds evidence that ownership matters. Traditional firms …

-advertising families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance … redemptions rather than increasing purchases of fund shares. We further find that advertising can affect the fund’s flow-performance …