This work quantifies the financial and macroeconomic effects of the most significant Brexit events from 23 June 2016 up to 31 December 2019 for fifteen economies. The study uses high-frequency data and shows that following the referendum outcome, overall the 10-year government bond yield of the...

In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of the credit crisis of 2008 by adopting coexceedance as a contagion measure. We assess the effect of news of governmental intervention and the collapse of firms during the period from 2007 to 2009 on the coexceedance. Our approach involves...

The rapid expansion of non-oil goods exports in Greece during the last decade contributed to raising net exports, despite the severe economic crisis the country was undergoing. Nevertheless, the EU’s overall energy consumption exhibited a downward trend that was even stronger in Greece. This...

We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct on a NUTS-2 level a complete regional data for exports, imports and...

We estimate a New Keynesian DSGE model for the Euro area under alternative descriptions of monetary policy (discretion, commitment or a simple rule) after allowing for Markov switching in policy-maker preferences and shock volatilities. This reveals that there have been several changes in...