Am 22. und 23. März 2007 findet die CESifo International Spring Conference statt. Hauptthema der Veranstaltung ist die Verfassung der Finanzmärkte in einem Umfeld sich abschwächenden weltwirtschaftlichen Wachstums. Was sind die Risikopotentiale nach Jahren ohne nennenswerte Krisen angesichts...

This paper considers the causal relationship between economic and financial development, making some allowance for financial liberalization. The measures of financial development (and variants thereof) advocated in the literature are utilized, supplemented by some simple quantitative mesures.

This paper presents an innovative yet practical framework to assess corporate sector vulnerability and the links to exchange rates and financial crises that bridges the gap between corporate finance and macroeconomic analysis. This framework missing describing how changes in aggregate value of...

Intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia on foreign exchange markets from 1993 to 1997 is conjectured to have been determined by exchange rate trend correction, exchange rate volatility smoothing and profitability considerations. Using Probit and friction models, we show that these factors...

This paper investigates the response efficiency of the 10-year Australian Commonwealth bond futures market to the new contents of the Australian scheduled information release from January 1993 to July 1997. Using Money Market Services market expectations data to generate the news component of...