Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to stress the role that several defective theories or views of the world played in generating the subprime financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach – This is done by describing these views, showing that they were widely held by relevant decision...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of creditors' undervaluing the total expected cost of a borrower's bankruptcy filing because a portion of the cost will be borne by other lenders. Creditors who bear a smaller portion of the total cost of a personal bankruptcy would...

Purpose – The paper aims to study the importance of financial market development and financial structure in explaining the financial policies of firms in emerging market countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a panel data of 32 countries and the system generalized method of...

Summary The present paper uses the P-Star approach to analyze the real and price effects of German monetary policy on the basis of a multivariate vector-error-correction-model. One surprising result is that the Bundesbank does not cause the price effects of its monetary policy actions directly...

Abstract The dollarization of bank deposits and credit is widespread in developing countries, resulting in varying degrees of currency mismatches in domestic financial intermediation. It is argued that flexible exchange rate regimes generally encourage banks to match dollar-denominated...

Summary This study aims to determine whether forward discount represents a long memory or short memory process with multiple changes in the mean. Based on the samples of six currencies from November 3, 1986, to March 6, 1998, using Baek and Pipiras’s (2012, 2014) statistical procedures, our...

Abstract Almost all countries face the problems of trade balance, although they are more inherent in developing countries and economies in transition. A majority of economists adhere to a common opinion that real depreciation may lead to an improvement of trade balance. That said, countries...