This paper examines how international investors evaluate the change in the risk-return profile often Central and Eastern European countries that recently entered the European Union (EU). By supplementing international investment position data provided by IMF's International Financial Statistics...

This paper examines how international investors evaluate the change in the risk-return profile often Central and Eastern European countries that recently entered the European Union (EU). By supplementing international investment position data provided by IMF’s International Financial...

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Authors' Biographies -- Emerging issues in urban freight transportation systems-introduction and overview of the book -- Part A. Land-use and urban production -- Chapter 1. Logistics locations...

This paper provides an assessment of the impact of the covered bond purchase programme (hereafter referred to as the CBPP) relative to its policy objectives. The analysis presented on the impact of the CBPP on both the primary and secondary bond markets indicates that the Programme has been an...

In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy rate (the policy spread) for the euro area and the UK during the two main phases of the financial crisis that began in late 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited...