Part of the Polish transformation process has been an opening of the domestic financial market to foreign entrants. While the number of MNBs rises from zero to fifteen within six years, the ratio of bank credit to private and public enterprises relative to GDP decreases continuously after 1991....

Capital flight is a major issue in developing economies; the problem is more severe in Africa, where domestic investment has been affected. Much attention has been given to the effect of legal and foreign capital flows in the international capital movement, disregarding illicit capital outflows...

The present study aims to analyze the effect of COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) on the Colombian peso market exchange rate between February 16, and March 14, 2020. This period was selected because therein, the pandemic expanded toward South America and the first case was diagnosed in Colombia. Also, during...

This paper provides an overview of recent developments regarding the regulation of competition in Latin America with a special emphasis on the convergence and divergence of the various regimes. It reviews the regulatory framework of competition and addresses the substantive rules applicable to...

Azerbaijani Abstract: Ölkələrin inkişafı maliyyə bazarlarının inkişafına və maliyyə bazarlarının inkişafı da maliyyəalətlərinin inkişafına bağlıdır. Bu mənada Faiz Swap'ı, dünyadakı tətbiq və işləyişi ilə bu inkişafların qabaqcıllarından biri olmaqdadır. Bu...

With the benefit of hindsight it becomes easier to appraise the historical significance and impact of the European revolutions of 1989. By a privileging a global point of view, it becomes possible to leave behind the prevalent perspective of 1989 as a regional transition of Central Europe only....

In turbulent and volatile markets options can be a preferred asset class for protection against adverse market movements. When volatility increases and markets become sparsely traded, it is not always effective to hedge adverse market movements using any option. Options, where the underlying is...

This paper examines competition between ETFs that hold nearly identical portfolios of securities. We provide evidence that incumbent-fund liquidity is negatively affected when a new ETF is added to an asset class. The degradation in liquidity is even more severe whenever both funds follow the...

This paper studies equilibrium uniqueness in multi-asset noisy rational expectations economies with asymmetric information, an extension of Grossman and Stiglitz (1980). We show the existence of a linear equilibrium, and prove its uniqueness among equilibria with any continuous price function....

This paper studies equilibrium uniqueness in standard noisy rational expectations economies with asymmetric or differential information a la Grossman and Stiglitz (1980) and Hellwig (1980). We show that the standard linear equilibrium of Grossman and Stiglitz (1980) is the unique equilibrium...