The latter financial crisis has led in many occasions to a reconsideration of the present economic system. Before suggesting any reform, this paper intends to observe whether the root of the business cycles is indeed a tragedy of the commons in the present banking system, the aim being that...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, in which the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck," money market funds (MMFs) have been the subject of ongoing policy debate. Many commentators view MMFs as a key contributor to the crisis because widespread redemption demands during the days following the Lehman...

Die Vorstellung selbst-stabilisierender, zum Gleichgewicht tendierender Finanzmärkte, lange Zeit als Selbstverständlichkeit angesehen, ist durch die aktuelle Banken- und Kreditkrise in Frage gestellt. Trotz ausgefeilten Risikomanagements der Banken und einer an Basel II orientierten Aufsicht...

Se estudian las pérdidas de PBI a través de países originadas por crisis financieras. Las pérdidas se analizan en términos de frecuencia (número de eventos de pérdida) y severidad (monto de pérdida por cada evento). Se utiliza el enfoque de densidad total de las perdidas (enfoque LDA por...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of economical crises occurred in Turkey in 1994 and 2001 and encountered globally in 2008 on Turkish Manufacture Industry. For this aim, effects of the crises on the manufacture industry were revealed by Factor and Discrimination Analysis using...

This paper investigates the links between price returns for 25 commodities and stocks over the period from January 2001 to November 2011, by paying a particular attention to energy raw materials. Relying on the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) GARCH methodology, we show that the...

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has deepened so far in 2011 and even more so since mid year. The reason behind this continuous deterioration is a combination of vulnerabilities in macroeconomic fundamentals (including some questionings about debt sustainability in Greece and other...

Financial Crises can be shown to be related to the pro-cyclical nature of finance. In fact, the bigger financial crises are almost always preceded by a credit market or an asset market boom. And the recurrence of crises time and again suggests that financial regulation as it exists today has...

I consider the stock and bond markets of 14 EU countries. I use two classifi?cation schemes for de?fining extreme returns: One, the existing univariate classi?fication scheme which considers each market separately. Two, the new multivariate classi?fication scheme that considers all the markets...