Under the context of the US and EMU financial and debt crisis we investigate the portfolio asset diversification and assess risk for a core pool of advanced (US/Eurozone/UK/Japan) markets enriched by emerging financial markets represented by BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Specifically we...

The global financial and the European debt crises categorized as Minsky's moments present the physical laboratory for studying contagion cross country and cross market. Our research based on the twin sovereign-banking crisis evolution of the euro debt crisis era, focuses on addressing the...

The global financial and the European debt crises categorized as Minsky's moments present the physical laboratory for studying spillover effects cross country and cross market. Our research based on the twin sovereign-banking crisis evolution of the euro debt crisis era, focuses on addressing...

A recent line of research deals with the formulation, the justification and the modelling of a crisis triggered by involved economic agents. Modelling financial crises within an asymmetric information environment is argued to be a difficult task since the measurement of adverse selection and/or...

Under the context of EMU debt and financial crisis we assess the impact of EMU's legislative initiative on Tobin tax for financial regulation. Specifically we focus on its impact on bond and equity volatility for a representative basket of 7 countries: Germany, France (core EMU) and Greece,...

We research the association of the sovereign crisis stemming from periphery EMU countries and monetary policy in terms of financial stability. Empirical results are derived on the linkage of monetary policy reflected through interbank lending rates i.e. banking sector fragility to long term...