In order to prescribe adequate remedies to treat the current financial crisis one has to understand what in the first place went wrong. An age ago, older generations wrote that disease could not be cured without an accurate diagnosis. In contrast to mainstream “efficient markets hypothesis”...

Motivated by the revealed preference approach to consumer theory, this study constructs a dynamic theoretical model which infers the unobservable household behavior from the observable patterns of housing and mortgage market activities. The model emphasizes the role of asymmetric responses of...

What is a speculator? A person who seeks profit. What is an investor? An entity who also seeks profits. What is the difference between them? The difference may be due to the motivation of the investment, namely how much risk is supported by the investor. Risk aversion is the most important...

Overaccumulation of financial capital at the expense of the real sector resulted in falling wages as well as in the most recent global financial crisis. This is a topic of increasing interest, as the idea that some developed economies have reached a stage of overfinancialization has gained some...

Although the Great Depression and the financial crisis of 1929 that triggered it have been endlessly studied, there is little consensus and even much puzzlement as to why they occurred. This article claims that beneath the many causal factors that have been advanced lie deeper underlying...

A magyar gazdaságot a nemzetközi pénzügyi válság a költségvetési kiigazítás közepén érte el, megakadályozva azt, hogy a már két éve tartó visszafogott növekedésű pálya újból felívelő szakaszba váltson. A világgazdasági kereslet egyre erőteljesebb visszaesése a...

Az árhatásfüggvények azt mutatják meg, hogy egy adott értékű megbízás mekkora relatív árváltozást okoz. Az árhatásfüggvény ismerete a piaci szereplők számára fontos szerepet játszik a jövőben benyújtandó ajánlataikhoz kapcsolódó árhatás előrejelzésében, a...