Financial constraints on Brazilian firms are very high compared to advanced economies. In Brazil, 59% of firms have access to a bank loan or a credit line. In developed countries, the average percentage is 95%. Loan collateral requirements are much higher in Brazil (95% of the loan value) than...

Turkish Abstract: Para politikası kararlarının hisse senedi piyasaları üzerindeki etkisi, hem önemli bir parasal aktarım kanalı olması açısından politika yapıcılarını hem de finansal yatırımcıları yakından ilgilendirmektedir. Bu bağlamda çalışmada, Türkiye'de ‘açık'...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmada, BİST 100 hisse senedi endeksi getirisi ile döviz kuru, altın fiyatı, mevduat faiz oranı ve reel konut fiyat endeksi arasındaki uzun dönemli ilişki, 2000:01-2014:07 dönemine ait aylık veriler kullanılarak, eşbütünleşme yöntemleri ile...

In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of financial markets to monetary policy expectations in Turkey. According to the efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets respond to anticipated policy actions prior to a policy announcement. As a result, they are expected to respond only...

This paper analyzes the Brazilian growth pattern during the post-liberalization period, emphasizing the structural links between finance and productive capital accumulation. The results indicate a finance-led growth regime in the period 2004-2008, under a very specific financialization process....

Turkish economy in the aftermath of the global crisis has faced an unprecedented divergence between domestic and external demand. Increasing risks in the face of surging short-term capital inflows, deteriorating current account deficit and rapid credit growth have called for an alternative...

This study aims to show that during the cycle of credit expansion occurred in the Brazilian economy between 2003 and 2010, public banks had acted with a degree of liquidity preference higher than that of private banks until the international financial crisis. The need to achieve economic and...

This paper deals with the financial wealth. It shows, firstly, how it was inserted into the Systems of National Accounts recommended by multilateral institutions, and, in particular, how it is treated by the most recent version of the system (2008). After that, it discusses the evolution and the...

This paper analyzes on a comparative basis the impact of the two major contemporary financial crises in Japan and in the United States. They were both the result of the burst of speculative bubbles that had allowed the high increase in the value of real estate and equity. The abrupt reversal of...