The present article analyses some transformations suffered by the financial systems in the framework of new economic environment realities, including the financial and economic crisis, and also a number of indicators such as dynamics of banks’ loans balances, the interest rate on loans and...

La banca paralela (BP) en las economías emergentes se comprende menos y ha sido mucho menos estudiada que en las economías desarrolladas. La falta de datos es una de las razones fundamentales. El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar datos y analizar la BP en un grupo heterogéneo de...

The most striking difference in corporate-governance arrangements between rich and poor countries is that the latter rely much more heavily on the dynastic family firm, where ownership and control are passed on from one generation to the other. We argue that if the heir to the family firm has no...

This study investigates the impact of stock market development on economic growth in China. To this end, the quarterly data from 1996 to 2011 are used and the empirical investigation is conducted within the unit root and the cointegration framework. The results show that the relationship between...

The most striking difference in corporate-governance arrangements between rich and poor countries is that the latter rely much more heavily on the dynastic family firm, where ownership and control are passed on from one generation to the other. We argue that if the heir to the family firm has no...

Business cycles are – as in definition of Burns and Mitchell -a type of fluctuation found in the aggregate economic activity of nations that organize their work mainly in business enterprises: a cycle consists of expansions occurring at about the same time in many economic activities, followed...

This article deals with interesting oscillation pattern in electricity prices during the period of EU electric power supply liberalization process, its transition from infrastructure to market activity and during last economic crisis, when at first prices declined significantly, to be raised...

This paper provides a detailed characterisation of the structure and behaviour of African factor markets and the institutions that impact on their operations. It shows that the African factor markets are imperfect and inefficient, thus constraining economic growth. The paper posits that for the...

Financing of corporate growth has generally not been paid much attention in the development economics literature. Recent analysis of the Emerging Markets Data Base of the International Financial Corporation suggests that corporate financing patterns in India, among a select group of other...