A shared belief in the financial industry is that markets are driven by two types of regimes. Bull markets would be … characterized by high returns and low volatil- ity whereas bear markets would display low returns coupled with high volatility …

main point in this reearch is the focus that authors put on learning, diffusion, imitation and bouded rationality. Markets …, including consumer-producer relationships and learning; financial markets are also widely studied. …

, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …

government is defined as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy … allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues …

In the aftermath of the sovereign debt criss, open-market interventions prevailed within the central bank's policy … answers known under the label unconventional monetary policy measures. During interwar period, France was an isolated case …, among the leading countries, by everlastingly rejecting open-market operations in its monetary policy toolset. The present …