The alarming rise in drinking water pollution across the U.S. is often attributed to cost cutting pressures faced by local officials. We know little, however, about why these pressures are so severe for some cities compared to others. We present a new theory to argue that an important...

This article investigates the determinants of US interest rate swap spreads in the period including the financial crisis. The asymmetric impacts of the financial crisis on interest rate swap spreads are focused by dividing the whole sample period into two. Four determinants of swap spreads -...

In the paper we research statistical properties of the Central European stock markets. We focus mainly on the tail behavior of the Czech, Polish, and Hungarian stock markets and compare them to the benchmark U.S. and German stock markets. We fit the data of the 4-year period from March 2005 to...