The purpose of the present study is to explore the specific contributions of variousnominal and real rigidities in monetary DGE models in a systematic way and ina common framework. I will concentrate on a quite simple model setup in orderto find out the important transmission mechanisms at work....

In the current times, the issue of the deficits became very problematic for the economists, as well as for the practitioners and theoreticians. The purpose of this paper consists in the construction of a Panel VAR model, which has the role to test the Ricardian approach to deficits in several...

We study the effects that the Maastricht treaty, the creation of the ECB, and the Euro changeover had on the dynamics of European business cycles using a panel VAR and data from ten European countries - seven from the Euro area and three outside of it. There are slow changes in the features of...

El objetivo de este trabajo es contrastar empíricamente el impacto entre países de shocks de precios de materias primas en el crecimiento de la PTF agregada en una muestra de economías emergentes. En un contexto de contabilidad de crecimiento, estimamos crecimientos de la PTF específicos por...

This study examines the financial structure and profitability of various categories of Greek hotels for the 2005-2007 period, three years following the 2004 Olympics in Athens and just before the 2008 economic crisis in Greece. The research sample consisted of 146 private two, three, four and...

Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country’s financial system is bank based or stock-market based? This paper posits that financial intermediation affects domestic investment notably by alleviating financing constraints, allowing firms to increase investment in response to...

This paper studies the relation between firm's financing choices and financial globalization. Using an East Asian and Latin American firm-level panel for the 1980s and 1990s, we study how leverage ratios, debt maturity structure, and sources of financing change when economies are liberalized and...

The ageing of the world population is an ineluctable process with major economicimplications. Whereas there is extensive research on macroeconomic effects and on financial assetprices there has been more limited systematic research into the impact of demographic changes onfinancial asset volumes...

The emerging stock market in Viet Nam has been developed since 2006 and affected by the financial crisis 2007-2009. This paperwork analyzes the impacts of tax policy on market risk for the listed firms in the banking industry as it becomes necessary. First of all, by using quantitative and...