In this paper we explore the effects of bank-borrower physical proximity on price and non-price aspects of small business lending in local credit markets. Along the price dimension, our analysis reveals that interest rates increase with bank-borrower distance and decrease with the distance...

The global economic crisis has led to the global reduction in credit activity, a fall of domestic product as well as the level of foreign direct investments, and has imposed the sources of economic growth as one of the key problems. Therefore, the objective of this paper is the monetary policy...

During the late 1980s and early 1990s there was an interest in the academics literature in the role of transparency in monetary policy-making, which partly reflects the increased attention central banks devoted to communication issues in monetary policy practice. Most commonly, transparency...

This paper presents a small open economy model to study the role of interest rate shocks in an emerging economy like Mexico. The interest rate is decomposed in two terms: an international rate and a country risk premia. First, it is shown that the model is able to explain several stylized facts...

In this paper we investigate empirically the determinants of credit default rates in the Peruvian system of Municipal Banks of Savings and Credit, using a dynamic fixed effects model with monthly data, over the period 2003-2010. We postulate that credit default rates are positively related to...

In USA, the 2008 global crisis started with the financial crisis, and soon after affected the real economy. It also started as a financial crisis in the Euro zone, while in countries with very weak public debt indicators and current accounts it was transformed into a state crisis. Experts in...

A new methodology to construct synthetic volatility derivatives is presented. The underlying asset price process is very general, since equity, commodities and interest rates are included. The focus is on volatility swaps and volatility swap options, but much more derivatives may be considered....

This paper aims to use a Taylor Rule to characterise the monetary policy applied by the ECB and to test whether there are significant differences compared to the monetary policy applied in the previous years by the central banks of the 12 countries currently forming part of the EMU. We see that...

The following paper aims at analysing the impact of a shock in interest rate on selected economic variables in the five European Union member countries (Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg). The analysis shall be done through the VAR method where we will use the approach of the...

This paper examines the impact of the monetary policy, perceptible through the variation of the interest rate, the exchange rate and the market value of shares, on the investment policy of the firm, most important being the interest rate and the market value of shares. Thus, the existent...