Besides providing enhanced macroeconomic and financial stability, a commitment to optimum monetary policy conduct in a developing economy like Nigeria could better deliver greater long-run stability of both internal and external macroeconomic factors. The need for an ordered monetary policy...

Die japanische Wirtschaft zeigt nach der Natur- und Atomkatastrophe Erholungserscheinungen. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist wieder kräftig gestiegen. Dazu haben nicht zuletzt staatliche Ausgabenprogramme beigetragen, die die binnenwirtschaftliche Nachfrage stützen. Allerdings hat sich dadurch die...

Mit der Krise im Euroraum hat die Frage nach der institutionellen Ausgestaltung der Währungsunion an Bedeutung gewonnen. Ein Problem im Hinblick auf die längerfristige Stabilität des Euroraums ist das Fehlen von Mechanismen, die nur in einzelnen Ländern auftretende konjunkturelle Schocks...

This paper aims to examine the influence of the fiscal and budgetary policy to the labour market and how to determine the movement of filled employment positions from one period to another, the gross job creation, the gross job destruction, the job reallocation and the average job vacancies. The...

This article evaluates the presence of dynamic inconsistency on decisions of discretionary environmental policy, and its incidence on social welfare. It is assumed that an environmental authority minimizes a social welfare loss function controlling freely – on each period – a tax rate by...

The era of US state branching deregulation started in 1970 and ended up with the enactment of the Riegle Neal Act of 1994. One of the purposes of the branching restriction was to avoid bank concentration. The following paper addresses the influence of the state deregulation on commercial...

The paper examines the proposed Economic and Monetary Union for ECOWAS sub-region and provide a comprehensive evidence based on European Union experience of what ECOWAS common currency stand to gain in terms of both Intra and Inter flow of FDI. Evidence from the reviewed literature revealed...

This paper investigates the market efficiency of the Malaysian crude palm oil prices using data for the sample period spanning from 1998:01 – 2010:12. The univariate unit root test confirms that all series are non-stationary in their levels. The Johansen multivariate test provides empirical...

In this paper, we tried to see if the Tunisian banks are ready to confront the different and main challenges of financial liberalization. The main objective of this paper is defined in this context. We investigate the cost efficiency of Tunisian universal banks over the period 1997–2006. We...

By estimating the correlation coefficients values we compare in this study the diversification potential of the different foreign equity markets and commodities. We present the findings that reflect the perspective of Polish investor. Our results are following: we identify a significant...