In the framework of a new money market econometric model, we assess the degree of precision achieved by the European Central Bank ECB) in meeting its operational target for the short-term interest rate and the impact of the U.S. sub-prime credit crisis on the euro money market during the second...

This study identifies five distinctive stages of the current global financial crisis: the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market; spillovers into broader credit market; the liquidity crisis epitomized by the fallout of Northern Rock, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers with counterparty risk...

This study argues that the severity of the current global financial crisis is strongly influenced by changeable allocations of the global savings. This process is named a wandering asset bubbleʺ. Since its original outbreak induced by the demise of the subprime mortgage market and the...