This paper provides empirical evidence of the heterogeneous borrowing behaviours of French regions, despite a common accountability constraint that forces them to balance their budget and to borrow only to finance investment expenditure (golden rule). To this end, we conduct a quantile...

In this paper we examine whether the weights of the forecasted macroeconomic variables in the valuation of sovereign risks has changed after the adoption of the Bâle 2 new regulation framework (around the years 2005/2006 when the new rules begun to be implemented in Europe). For purpose of...

Our object is to study the adjustment process of five European exchange rates toward their fundamentals on the 1979-1999 period. We consider two approaches, namely nonlinear cointegration and fractional cointegration, in order to discriminate between nonlinear short memory and linear long memory...

The aim of this article is to study and quantify the transmission channels between the American and Mexican stock markets in the aftermath of the subprime crisis. To this end, we use a time-varying transition probability Markov-switching model, in which ?crisis? and ?non-crisis? periods are...