The article discusses different causes of financial crises and shows that the imputation of reinvested profits of the subsidiaries of foreign firms as a debit item on a host country's balance of payments account tends to overstate the current account deficit and to make the host country seem...

I denne rapporten analyserer vi avkastningsmønstret på Oslo Børs over perioden 1980- 2006. Formålet med rapporten er å analysere drivkreftene bak kursutviklingen i det norske aksjemarkedet. Et viktig siktemål med analysen er dessuten å undersøke i hvilken grad hovedresultatene fra...

This paper briefly surveys the development of international finance theories after the 1960s. The important theories reviewed in this paper include: exchange rate dynamics, policy pre-announcement, first-generation currency crises, intertemporal optimizing model, exchange rate target zones,...

The results of applied research on estimation of the production potential based on the methodology of the stochastic frontier production function are presented in the paper. The comparative analysis of the stochastic frontier models by means of estimates of technical production efficiency is...