risk include an additional stress component introduced by the recent Basel 2.5 regulation. Our optimization with the Basel …

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance … medium enterprises, possibly, because in large firms borrowing is a less essential source of finance. An important policy …

-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that Islam and Islamic institutions …

This paper introduces finance or credit in the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman (DSK) model of international trade. It identifies … mechanisms by which finance can affect the main results of the conventional model. The key results are as follows. Perfect credit … output per variety. Thus, availability of finance will determine a specific trade pattern between richer and poorer nations …

international finance is what is insurance and where does insurance end?' This paper aims to elaborate on the economics of insurance … and its borders with general finance. It argues that the classification challenge by regulators partly stems from … terminological confusion between insurance activities and more general financial activities. Insurance and finance both use the same …

We contribute to the finance literature in two main ways. First, we present a theoretical capital asset pricing model …

Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open … economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the …