Azərbaycanın dünya iqtisadi sisteminə sürətli inteqrasiyası və bir çox inkişaf etmiş və ya inkişaf etməkdə olan ölkələrlə sıx iqtisadi əlaqələri, dünya maliyyə böhranının ölkə iqtisadiyyatına müəyyən mənada təsirinə gətirib çıxarmışdır. Azərbaycanın...

In 2009, the promise of a comprehensive federal cap and trade bill to address climate change fell apart. At least in part, this was due to the fears that exotic 'carbon' financial instruments might cause more financial crises. As California launches it economy wide carbon trading system, and...

We live in peculiar times: on the one hand, many people — mainly in Western countries — enjoy an unprecedentedly high standard of living from a historical perspective. On the other hand, a considerable part of the population has a feeling that something went wrong, which is underscored by...

We examine the disruptions to global commodity flows following the bankruptcy of a commodity trading firm. The physical commodity network is operated by a handful of large traders that are responsible for the timely delivery of raw materials and inputs to industrial production. We propose a...

In this article, the long-lasting effects of the 2007-2008 global economic crises on the economy of the United States and Europe have been investigated and presented separately. In these economies, the permanence of this effect is given. Similar and different aspects are explained in terms of...

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Analyse des Einflusses der Faktoren Konjunkturerwartung, Risikoaversion des Kapitalmarktes und Liquidität auf die Marktwerte von Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) verschiedener Seniorität. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Marktwerte von CDOs wesentlich...

Research papers in empirical finance and financial econometrics are among the most widely cited, downloaded and viewed articles in the discipline of Finance. The special issue presents several papers by leading scholars in the field on “Recent Developments in Financial Economics and...

We examine hedging as a macroprudential tool in a Sudden Stops model of an economy exposed to commodity price fluctuations. We find that hedging commodity revenues yields significant welfare gains by stabilizing public expenditure, which heavily depends on these revenues. However, this added...

Purpose - The authors aim to examine the mean and volatility linkages between the gold market and the Latin American equity markets in the entire sample period and two crises periods, namely the US financial crisis and the Chinese crash. Design/methodology/approach - To examine the return and...

For globally systemically important banks (G-SIBs) with U.S. headquarters, we find large post-Lehman reductions in market-implied probabilities of government bailout, along with big increases in debt financing costs for these banks after controlling for insolvency risk. The data are consistent...