The paper suggests a nonlinear and multivariate time series model framework that enables the study of simultaneity in returns and in volatilities, as well as asymmetric effects arising from shocks and an outside stock exchange. Using daily data 2000-2006 for the Baltic state stock exchanges and...

La crise financière 2007-2008 a suscité une profusion de réactions et d'explications : on a évoqué le mimétisme des organismes, la cupidité de leurs dirigeants, la propension des traders à aimer le jeu. Elle est évidemment due à la conjonction de plusieurs facteurs. Nous mettons ici...

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

The 2008-09 global financial crisis did not result in the failure of any major financial institution in Israel, but it did reveal vulnerabilities in the non-banking sector . particularly in the corporate-bond market. Conservative regulation of the banking sector helped this segment avoid a...

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

The actual world economic crisis has proven once more that the banks are the primary force for an economic growth or for a recession. This major economic crisis has begun, in the first instance, at the banks level, there for in the banking system has developed a great void of banking...

Access to finance remains a challenge for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Argentina. It is a particularly acute problem among newly created SMEs that have a scant credit record and frequently lack collateral. The authors of this paper carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric...

The economy of decline, with the type of problems that characterised a big amount of the economic activity of the 1930s, aspects that have not been met until now, has made a forceful comeback, taking into consideration the fact that 15-16 years ago nobody would have thought that the modern...