Uncertainty has been a prominent feature and characteristic recently. Not just in relation to Brexit, ongoing trade wars, and namely global financial markets and volatilities triggered owing to unpredictabilities, but also in matters relating to monetary and unconventional policies. Price...

As well as highlighting why Unconventional Monetary Policy Tools have become so important, this presentation aims to highlight wide ranging implications from monetary and stability goals, to environmental implications. With a focus on the "Report of the Working Group and Committee on the Global...

Even though it has recently been highlighted that the timeline for recovery from the ongoing pandemic is highly uncertain and “will depend heavily on the course of the pandemic”, consumer confidence and expectations, also impact the level of consumer spending and the role of providing...

Even though unregulated and decentralized platforms such as crypto assets are considered to have the potential to provide low-income earners with cheap banking alternative and “perhaps put pressure on banks to lower fees” (WSJ, 2019), its volatile nature, lack of consensual standards as...

As recent global stock market crashes have brought to light – particularly massive sell outs which were instigated in response to panics about the actual state of economic growth of strategic investment partners and emerging economies, nothing moves consumers and investors more than...

Many questions have been raised as to whether financial accounting has become more conservative. The value relevance and qualitative characteristics of accounting information have become topics of particular relevance given the role they have assumed in influencing the value judgment of...

This paper highlights why the relationship being referred to in this paper (as well as in Parts I and II), constitutes a mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationship (symbiotic relationship) – and not a parasitic one.It also attempts to justify why given certain financial conditions, and the...

Just as sound judgment is required in deciding which institutions should be granted financial bailouts, timing is crucial in discerning which information should be disseminated under certain financial conditions.Even though systemic risks and asymmetric information constitute embodiments of the...

This paper highlights why financial bailouts are an inevitable and necessary element in global efforts aimed at ensuring that financial stability is sustained. How could such bailouts be conducted in such a way that moral hazard does not become a too frequent, ever recurring issue?Systemic risks...

It is frequently argued that the causes of financial crises are attributed to capital crises, liquidity crises and pro cyclical related issues. The focus accorded by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to capital requirements – as opposed to liquidity standards, has also provided...